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Oral literature for children : rethinking orality, literacy, performance, and documentation practices /

This book is the first ever major effort to document and study hundreds of texts from an African (Ugandan) oral culture for children - folktales, riddles, and rhymes - and at the same time to make them available in the local languages and to focus on their cultural and national value. The author sur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mushengyezi, Aaron
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2013.
Colección:Cross/cultures ; v154.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Oral Forms for Children: Audience, Form, and Social Relevance; 2 "Let Me Tell You a Story, Let Me Tell You a Story!" On Text Structure and Narrative Strategies; 3 From Tape to the Page; 4 On the Translation Process; Afterword; Appendix: Texts; A: Runyankore-Rukiga Riddles; B: Runyarwanda-Rufumbira Riddles; C: Luganda Riddles; D: Runyankore-Rukiga Children's Songs; E: Runyarwanda-Rufumbira Children's Songs; F: Luganda Children's Songs; G: Runyankore-Rukiga Folktales.
  • H: Runyarwanda-Rufumbira FolktalesI: Luganda Folktales; Informants for Oral Narrative and Interviews; Works Cited; Index.