Oral Literary Performance in Africa
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Oral Literary Performance in Africa

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Nduka Otiono, Chiji Akọma, Nduka Otiono, Chiji Akọma

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Oral Literary Performance in Africa

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Nduka Otiono, Chiji Akọma, Nduka Otiono, Chiji Akọma

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This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance.

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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
ISBN
9781000397536

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