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Performing wisdom : proverbial lore in modern Ugandan society /
This is the third collection produced by members of a six-year research project, funded by the NUFU (Norwegian Programme for Development, Research, and Education), whose concern was to find, preserve, and analyse orature spoken forms of all kinds, both their unique qualities and their equivalence in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2013.
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| Colección: | Matatu ;
42. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Folklore and Cultural Memory: Promises and Pitfalls; Survival of the Fittest and Stories of Cannibalism; Mythical Implications in the OriginStories of the Baganda and Bagishu; The Concept of Heroism Among the Bunyoro; Traditional Leadership Wisdoms and TheirContemporary Parallels: The Madi of Uganda; Audience Perspectives on the MusicFestivals Phenomenon in Buganda; Proverbial Imagery in ContemporaryPolitical Discourse in Uganda; Riddling Among the Banyankoreand Baganda in Uganda
- The Popular Form and Structureof Riddle Discourse in LusogaThe Potential Role of Oraturein Fighting the Spread of HIV/AIDS; ""Mudo"": The Soga 'Little Red Riding Hood'; Transplanting the Pumpkin: Folktales in NewMedia Formats for Children's Instruction; 'Heed my Voice': Children's Songin the Wake of Child Sacrifice; Afterword: Ancestral Voices Prophesying; Marketplace; Achebe's Fiction and the Changing Generation of Nigerian Women: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Leadership; Lazarus, Noah, and the Enunciation of the Resurrection Mythos in Soyinka's The Interpreters
- The Àbikú Mystique: The Metaphor of Subversive Narrative in Buchi Emecheta's KehindeRichard Maduku's Kokoro Compound: A Postmodern Reading; The Violation of Women's Human Rights:Transformative Processes in Julie Okoh's Edewedeand Stella 'Dia Oyedepo's Brain Has No Gender; The Fatal Voyage: Colonialism as Tragedyin Steve Chimombo's Writing; ""The Religion of the Dream"": Colonial Myths and the Epistemology of Power in Alain Mabanckou's Bleu blanc rouge; Creative Writing; Born to Run; Three Poems; Reviews; Up Jumped a Jumbie; Destructive Deluge; Books Received; Notes on Contributors