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Journal articles on the topic "African oral literature"
James, Deborah, Graham Furniss, and Liz Gunner. "Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 3, no. 3 (September 1997): 619. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3034791.
Full textHutchison, John P., Graham Furniss, and Liz Gunner. "Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature." International Journal of African Historical Studies 31, no. 2 (1998): 409. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/221118.
Full textOkpewho, Isidore. "The Study of African Oral Literature." Présence Africaine 139, no. 3 (1986): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/presa.139.0020.
Full textBRYCE, J. "Power Marginality and African Oral Literature." African Affairs 96, no. 383 (April 1, 1997): 284–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a007833.
Full textEguchi, Paul K. "An Outline of African Oral Literature." Journal of African Studies 1985, no. 27 (1985): 71–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.11619/africa1964.1985.27_71.
Full textOwomoyela, Oyekan, and Isidore Okpewho. "African Oral Literature: Background, Character, and Continuity." African Studies Review 37, no. 3 (December 1994): 163. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/524930.
Full textFINNEGAN, RUTH. "African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, character, and continuity." African Affairs 94, no. 374 (January 1995): 124–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098782.
Full textSmith, Pamela J. Olubunmi, and Isidore Okpewho. "African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity." World Literature Today 67, no. 3 (1993): 656. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40149507.
Full textBelcher, Stephen, and Isidore Okpewho. "African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity." Journal of American Folklore 106, no. 422 (1993): 497. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/541919.
Full textHaring. "Translating African Oral Literature in Global Contexts." Global South 5, no. 2 (2011): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/globalsouth.5.2.7.
Full textDissertations / Theses on the topic "African oral literature"
Fay, Leann. "Human Connections with the Ocean Represented in African and Japanese Oral Narratives| Ecopsychological Perspectives." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13419400.
Full textThis dissertation demonstrates how characteristics and functions of African and Japanese oral narrative traditions make narratives about the ocean in these traditions useful for exploring some of the complex psychological roles the ocean plays in people’s lives. A background of these oral narrative traditions and the main characteristics and functions of African and Japanese oral narratives are identified from the literature, African and Japanese ecopsychological perspectives are outlined, and a hermeneutic methodology applies text analysis to identify connections between humans and the ocean represented in a selection of text versions of ocean oral narratives. African and Japanese oral narratives are transmitted in adaptable yet continuous traditions, reflective of self and group identity, used to serve social and community functions, connected to spiritual traditions, and used as tools for power or resistance to power. Intimate connections between humans and the ocean are represented in the selection of narratives. In African oral narratives, connections are represented including merging identities of the ocean and humans, contrasting of nurturing mother and dangerous mother elements, the ocean bringing children, extreme love, and taking extreme love, connections between the ocean and performance, and representations of the ocean in colonization, slavery, healing, and empowerment. In Japanese oral narratives, intimate connections are represented including magic gifts from the ocean, water deity wives, warnings of fishing, bodily sacrifice, and connections to spiritual traditions, people, and local places.
Anoka, Victor Ahamefule [Verfasser]. "African Philosophy : An Overview and a Critique of the Philosophical Significance of African Oral Literature / Victor Ahamefule Anoka." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1042471134/34.
Full textBerman, Julia E. "African American tropes in popular film /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3091899.
Full textMpola, Mavis Noluthando. "An analysis of oral literary music texts in isiXhosa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012909.
Full textMostert, Andre. "Developing a systematic model for the capturing and use of African oral poetry: the Bongani Sitole experience." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002154.
Full textDowling, Tessa. "The forms, functions and techniques of Xhosa humour." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17456.
Full textIn this thesis I examine the way in which Xhosa speakers create humour, what forms (e.g. satire, irony, punning, parody) they favour in both oral and textual literature, and the genres in which these forms are delivered and executed. The functions of Xhosa humour, both during and after apartheid, are examined, as is its role in challenging, contesting and reaffirming traditional notions of society and culture. The particular techniques Xhosa comedians and comic writers use in order to elicit humour are explored with specific reference to the way in which the phonological complexity of this language is exploited for humorous effect. Oral literature sources include collections of praise poems, folktales and proverbs, while anecdotal humour is drawn from recent interviews conducted with domestic workers. My analysis of humour in literary texts initially focuses on the classic works of G.B. Sinxo and S.M. Burns-Ncamashe, and then goes on to refer to contemporary works such as those of P.T. Mtuze. The study on the techniques of Xhosa humour uses as its theoretical base Walter Nash's The language of humour (1985), while that on the functions of Xhosa humour owes much to the work of sociologists such as Michael Mulkay and Chris Powell and George E.C. Paton. The study reveals the fact that Xhosa oral humour is personal and playful - at times obscene - but can also be critical. In texts it explores the comedy of characters as well as the irony of socio-political realities. In both oral and textual discourses the phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics of Xhosa are exploited to create a humour which is richly patterned and finely crafted. In South Africa humour often served to liberate people from the oppressive atmosphere of apartheid. At the same time humour has always had a stabilizing role in Xhosa cultural life, providing a means of controlling deviants and misfits.
Mpolweni, Nosisi Lynette. "The orality - literacy debate with special reference to selected work of S.E.K. Mqhayi." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
Full textByrd, Gayle. "The Presence and Use of the Native American and African American Oral Trickster Traditions in Zitkala-Sa's Old Indian Legends and American Indian Stories and Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/258606.
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The Presence and Use of the Native American and African American Oral Trickster Traditions in Zitkala-Sa's Old Indian Legends and American Indian Stories and Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman My dissertation examines early Native American and African American oral trickster tales and shows how the pioneering authors Zitkala-Sa (Lakota) and Charles W. Chesnutt (African American) drew on them to provide the basis for a written literature that critiqued the political and social oppression their peoples were experiencing. The dissertation comprises 5 chapters. Chapter 1 defines the meaning and role of the oral trickster figure in Native American and African American folklore. It also explains how my participation in the Native American and African American communities as a long-time storyteller and as a trained academic combine to allow me to discern the hidden messages contained in Native American and African American oral and written trickster literature. Chapter 2 pinpoints what is distinctive about the Native American oral tradition, provides examples of trickster tales, explains their meaning, purpose, and cultural grounding, and discusses the challenges of translating the oral tradition into print. The chapter also includes an analysis of Jane Schoolcraft's short story "Mishosha" (1827). Chapter 3 focuses on Zitkala-Sa's Old Indian Legends (1901) and American Indian Stories (1921). In the legends and stories, Zitkala-Sa is able to preserve much of the mystical, magical, supernatural, and mythical quality of the original oral trickster tradition. She also uses the oral trickster tradition to describe and critique her particular nineteenth-century situation, the larger historical, cultural, and political context of the Sioux Nation, and Native American oppression under the United States government. Chapter 4 examines the African American oral tradition, provides examples of African and African American trickster tales, and explains their meaning, purpose, and cultural grounding. The chapter ends with close readings of the trickster tale elements embedded in William Wells Brown's Clotel; or, The President's Daughter (1853), Harriett Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), and Martin R. Delany's Blake, or the Huts of America (serialized 1859 - 1862). Chapter 5 shows how Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman rests upon African-derived oral trickster myths, legends, and folklore preserved in enslavement culture. Throughout the Conjure tales, Chesnutt uses the supernatural as a metaphor for enslaved people's resistance, survival skills and methods, and for leveling the ground upon which Blacks and Whites struggled within the confines of the enslavement and post-Reconstruction South. Native American and African American oral and written trickster tales give voice to their authors' concerns about the social and political quality of life for themselves and for members of their communities. My dissertation allows these voices a forum from which to "speak."
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Nyoni, Triyono Johan. ""The Buttocks of a Snake" : Oral tradition in NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-70824.
Full textBaird, Pauline Felicia. "Towards A Cultural Rhetorics Approach to Caribbean Rhetoric: African Guyanese Women from the Village of Buxton Transforming Oral History." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1458317632.
Full textBooks on the topic "African oral literature"
Oral literature. Bloomington, Ind: Indiana University Press in cooperation with the Ohio State University, 1993.
Find full textAustin, Bukenya, Kabira Wanjiku Mukabi, and Okoth-Okombo Duncan, eds. Understanding oral literature. Nairobi, Kenya: Nairobi University Press, 1994.
Find full textOgunjimi, Bayo. Introduction to African oral literature. Ilorin, Nigeria: Ilorin Press, University of Ilorin, 1991.
Find full textEncounter with oral literature. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 1994.
Find full textOgunjimi, Bayo. Introduction to african oral literature & performance. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2005.
Find full textOgunjimi, Bayo. Introduction to African oral literature & performance. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003.
Find full textGraham, Furniss, and Gunner Elizabeth, eds. Power, marginality and African oral literature. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Find full textOkpewho, Isidore. African oral literature: Backgrounds, character and continuity. Bloomington: IndianaUniversity Press, 1992.
Find full textAfrican oral literature: Backgrounds, character, and continuity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Find full textOkumba, Miruka Simon, ed. A dictionary of oral literature. Nairobi: Heinemann Kenya, 1990.
Find full textBook chapters on the topic "African oral literature"
Na’Allah, Abdul-Rasheed. "Criticism of African Art and Literature." In Globalization, Oral Performance, and African Traditional Poetry, 21–44. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75079-8_2.
Full textOjaide, Tanure. "Revisiting an African Oral Poetic Performance: Udje Today." In Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature, 237–53. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137560032_17.
Full textSone, Enongene Mirabeau. "Oral Literature, Liberty and Political Change." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore, 473–87. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_24.
Full textSotunsa, Mobolanle Ebunoluwa. "Drum Language and Literature." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore, 281–95. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_14.
Full textAdeyemi, Lere. "The Figure of the Child in Oral Literature." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore, 421–36. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_21.
Full textKaschula, Russell H. "Tracing the Voice of Protest in Selected Oral Literature." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore, 453–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7_23.
Full textSotunsa, Mobolanle Ebunoluwa. "African Women and African Oral Literatures." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies, 1937–53. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28099-4_47.
Full textSotunsa, Mobolanle Ebunoluwa. "African Women and African Oral Literatures." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies, 1–17. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77030-7_47-1.
Full textd’Abdon, Raphael. "Go fetisa lekoalo/Beyond literature." In Oral Literary Performance in Africa, 210–30. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Series: Routledge African studies: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003111887-16.
Full textSolomon, Anne. "Broken Strings: Interdisciplinarity and /Xam Oral Literature." In Rethinking Khoe and San Indigeneity, Language and Culture in Southern Africa, 270–81. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003317357-22.
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