| Description |
1 online resource (xlix, 1026 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction: New perspectives on African oral traditions and folklore / Akintunde Akinyemi, Toyhin Falola -- Editors and contributors -- List of figures -- List of tables -- PART I. CONTEXTS AND PRACTICALITIES. 1. Creativity and performance in oral poetry / Godini G. Darah -- 2. Concept and components of performance / Anya Ude Egwu -- 3. The role of the audience in oral performance / Clement Adeniyi Akangbe -- 4. Orality, history and historical reconstruction / Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi -- 5. Insights from festivals and carnivals / Philip Adedotun Ogundeji, Mercy Ayo Fasehun -- 6. Fieldwork and data collection / Arinpe G. Adejumo, Akeem Oyebamiji -- 7. Documenting oral genres / James Essegbey -- 8. Retrospect and prospects of oral traditions and folklore / Oluwole Coker -- PART II. THEMES, TROPES AND TYPES. 9. Epic tradition / Tal Tamari -- 10. Divination and divinatory systems / Omotade Adegbindin -- 11. Myth and mythology / Oluwatoyin Bimpe Jegede -- 12. The dirge / Felicia Ohwovoriole -- 13. Dreams within the context of the Basotho culture / Anastacia Sara Motsei -- 14. Drum language and literature / Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa -- 15. Oratory and rhetoric: praise poetry / David Adu-Amankwah -- 16. Proverbs, naming, and other forms of veiled speech / Cécile Leguy -- 17. Oral poetry: Monyoncho's orature and Abagusii culture of non-violence / Augustine Agwuele, Alfred Nyagaka Nyamwange -- 18. Ifá: a womanist deconstruction of gender politics / Olusegun Adekoya -- 19. A repertoire of Bukusu nonverbal communicative system: some gender differences / Margaret Barasa, Augustine Agwuele -- 20. Oral tradition and identity / Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler -- 21. The figure of the child in oral literature / Lere Adeyemi -- 22. War songs: slavery, oral tradition, and identity construction / Emmanuel Saboro -- 23. Tracing the voice of protest in selected oral literature / Russell H. Kaschula -- 24. Oral literature, liberty and political change / Enongene Mirabeau Sone -- 25. Multiculturalism, orality, and folklore in South Africa / Anastacia Sara Motsei, Pule Alexis Phindane -- 26. Fichee-Cambalaalla of the Sidaama people / Augustine Agwuele, Tafesse Matewos Karo -- 27. Orality indexing: cultural benefits of male circumcision / Lesibana J. Rafapa -- PART III. TRANSFORMATION AND TRANSPOSITION. 28. To tongue the body / to body the tongue: problematizing the translation of oral traditions / Luan Staphorst -- 29. Musical transformation / Samuel Elikem Kwame Nyamuame -- 30. African folklore: the case of others and Dismas Nyangau's popular music / Alfred Nyagaka Nyamwange -- 31. When witches and wizards are narrators: oral autobiography, magical realism, and memory / Adetayo Alabi -- 32. Absorption of oral tradition and folklore narrative in written fictional works: Paul Lomami-Tchibamba, Ngandu Nkashama and Alain Mabanckou / Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga -- 33. Oral traditions in selected stage performances / Rasheedah Liman -- 34. From the hybrid to the transcultural: a comparative study on orality in the poetry of contemporary / Robert Simon -- 35. Oral tradition as commitment in modern African poetry / Sola Owonibi, Richard Bampoh-Addo -- 36. The masked snap, the snapped mask: mask, power, and betrayal in African cultures / Aderonke Adesola Adesanya -- 37. Caribbean orality / Hanétha Vété-Congolo -- 38. The re-invention of myths, legends, panegyrics and folktales in the Afro-Latin-American diaspora / Félix Ayoh'Omidire -- 39. Zora Neale Hurston: retrieving folk memory in mules and men / Joseph McLaren -- PART IV. ORALITY, TECHNOLOGY, AND POPULAR CULTURE. 40. Orality, media, and information technology / Kole Odutola -- 41. Orality and information communication technology / Tunde Adegbola -- 42. Orality and advertisement: Swahili proverbs in mobile phone service ads in Tanzania / Charles Bwenge -- 43. Reinventing oral traditions through arts and technology / Stephen Folaranmi, Oyewole Oyeniyi -- 44. De-territorializing lyrical performances via digital culture / Abubakar Aliyu Liman -- 45. Orality and technology: transforming traditional songs to popular music / Rosaleen Oabona Brankie Nhlekisana -- 46. Performance of folklore on television: new vistas in African folklore renditions / Rose A. Opondo -- 47. Orality, cinema, film, and video / Henry O. Unuajohwofia -- PART V. ORAL TRADITION, FOLKLORE, AND EDUCATION. 48. Restaging oral narrative in civic education / Kimingichi Wabende -- 49. Orality and early childhood education / Damola Adesina -- 50. Teaching folklore and oral traditions: the folktale medium as pedagogy / Michael Oladejo Afolayan -- Index |
| Summary |
This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed March 24, 2021) |
| Subject |
Oral tradition -- Africa
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Folklore -- Africa
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Folk literature, African -- History and criticism
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Folk literature, African
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Folklore
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Oral tradition
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Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Akínyẹmí, Akíntúndé, editor.
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Falola, Toyin, editor.
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| ISBN |
3030555178 |
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9783030555177 |
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