Oral Tradition in African Literature /

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This study of oral tradition in African literature is borne from the awareness that African verbal arts still survive in works of discerning writers and in the conscious exploration of its tropes, perspectives, philosophy and consciousness, its complementary realism, and ontology, for the delineatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ce, Chinenye (Editor ), Smith, Charles (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Literature and folklore > Africa.
African literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
African literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Re-visioning African writing
  • Issues in oral tradition
  • 2. The folktale in Achebe's fictions
  • Oral dynamics of things fall apart
  • 3. Orality in the works of Ousmane Sembene
  • 4. Oral multidimensional collage in recent fiction
  • 5. The Mythic context of Le Jujubier du patriarche
  • 6. Oral performance among the Graffi
  • Chat
  • 8. Sembene : last chat with an African griot.

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