Gathering insights from distinguished scholars in the field, the book provides a range of contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives in the study of oral literature and its transformations in everyday life, fiction, poetry, popular culture, and postcolonial politics. Topics discussed include folklore and folklife; oral performance and masculinities; intermediated orality, modern transformations, and globalisation; orality and mass media; spoken word and imaginative writing. The book also addresses research methodologies and the thematic and theoretical trajectories of scholars of African oral literatures, looking back to the trailblazing legacies of Ruth Finnegan, Harold Scheub, and Isidore Okpewho.

Ambitious in scope and incisive in its analysis, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African literatures and oral performance as well as to general readers interested in the dynamics of cultural production.

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Yes, you can access Oral Literary Performance in Africa by Nduka Otiono, Chiji Akọma, Nduka Otiono,Chiji Akọma in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Translating & Interpreting. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: A heritage of African oral literary performance studies
PART I Recapturing tradition: The oral performance in transition
PART II The word made flesh: Intermediated orality and modern transformations
PART III Orality at crossroads: Folklife, modernity, and globalisation
PART IV The scholar as artist: Isidore Okpewho and African oral performance studies
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