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Indigenous Heritage in African Literature.
This edition commits to the depths of black identities in modern black texts. The cultural reclamation of an African origin and/or roots as tied to the solemn remembrance of the Ancestor has demanded the intense attention of enlightened black writers for the social and psychic revaluation of their g...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Handel Books,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction
- Indigenous Heritage in African Literature; Chapter 1
- Storytelling and Human Development; African Storytelling and Human Development; The Wise King; Development Values of Storytelling; The Storyteller as a Developer; Stage and Environment in African Storytelling; Chapter 2
- Female Bonding in Black Literature; Chapter 3
- Insigamigani (Heroic) Traditions; Heroism in Rwandan Mythology; Heroic Models in Rwandese Insigamigani texts; The Symbolism and Imagery of Insigamigami Texts; The Ethic of Insigamigani Texts.
- Chapter 4
- Rumuji Women's DanceWomen in Colonial / Post-Colonial Period; Women's Voice in Pre-Colonial Communities; The Dance: Origin / Nomenclature; Rumuji Dance Performance; Chapter 5
- Time and the Traditional Palimpsest; The ""Black Hole"" in Africa History and Literature; Palimpsestic Time as Anti Post-colonialism; Images of Slave Trade and the African Sentiment; Chapter 6
- Poetics of African Naming; Naming and Collective Consciousness; Parodying Transformations; Chapter 7
- Proverbs in Ojaide's Contexts; Chapter 8
- Igbo traditional Morality; Tradition and Morality.
- Crime and PunishmentIgbo Moral Philosophy; Traditional vs Western Penal Systems; Chapter 9
- Naming in Esanland; Chapter 10
- Rhythms: in Honour of Achebe; Notes and Bibliography; Back cover.