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Bonambela, Dika Akwa nya. "Nyambéisme pensée et mode d'organisation des Négro-africains." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37594700z.
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Daouda, Boubacar. "La création romanesque chez Tierno Monenembo, écrivain africain francophone." Bordeaux 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997BOR30022.
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Ce travail qui porte sur la creation romanesque de tierno monenembo situe d'abord le romancier dans les contextes historique, culturel et politique d'ou jaillit son oeuvre. Au meme titre que les autres auteurs d'expression francaise, il renouvelle les pratiques des pionniers de la prose africaine en essayant toutefois de se demarquer du roman francais. Il explore les ressources litteraires de l'afrique traditionnelle qu'il mele a des techniques narratives modernes. Nos investigations, ont permis de degager les principes esthetiques qui informent les textes litteraires de cet exile guineen. Notre premiere partie etudie la tendance baroque de son ecriture. La seconde analyse la derision a la quelle conduit le sentiment d'un monde violent, imparfait et effrayant. Notre troisieme partie devoile l'impossibilite pour des auteurs comme monenembo de magnifier l'afrique. Ils melent le style epique a la satire, au sarcasme et a la parodie. Le baroque, la derision, la tonalite epique influent les uns sur les autres. Finalement notre texte montre que tierno monenembo est un romancier sceptique qui entretient l'esperance en refusant de nourrir l'utopie et les mythes. Cette creation romanesque est originale dans la litterature africaineThis study which deals with novelistic creation in tierno monenembo, a french speaking writer places first the novelist in historical, cultural and political contexts in which his work was born. As the other french speaking writers, he renews the practices of african prose pioneers but trying to set himself out of the french novel's perfect example. He explores traditional african literary ressources which he mixes with modern narrative techniques. Our investigations allowed us to underline the esthetical principles of this guinean exiled. Our first part studies the baroque trend of his writing. The second analyses the derision which is brought by a violent, imperfect and frightening world. Our third part shows the impossibility for authors like monenembo to celebrate africa. They mix epic style with satire, sarcasm, and parody. Baroque style, derision and epic tone influence one another. Finally, our text shows that tierno monenembo is a sceptical novelist who keeps hope refusing to nurture utopia and the myths. This novelistic creation is original in african literature
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Yomo, Djeriwo Etiti Jean-Pierre. "Cosmothéandricité Bakongo : révélation biblique et médiation culturelle." Paris 4, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA040154.
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L'étude socio-religieuse de l'univers traditionnel Kongo indique que le royant adopte des attitudes lui permettant de se mettre en relation avec le sacré. L'expérience religieuse Kongo s'ordonne suivant les idées principales en un ensemble cohérent dans lequel la trilogie de communion "Nzambi, Dieu, Nkulu, les Ancêtres, et Kanda ,le Clan" forme la structure de la vie religieuse. Face au message chrétien, cette relation cosmothéandrique tripolaire présente des traits analogiques permettant d'accueillir culturellement Jésus-ChristA study of the social and religious life of the Kongo reveals a tradition in which a sense of the supernatural is a part of everyday life. .
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Hounton, Jean-Baptiste. "Le mythe de Sakpata au Bénin : approches littéraire, sémiotique et sociologique." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040203.
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Notre étude est destinée aux jeunes lecteurs béninois ainsi qu'aux étrangers pour leur permettre de comprendre l'univers des mythes africains à travers un mythe particulier: un mythe fondateur connu dans toute la région du golfe du Benin, sous le nom de Sakpata, divinité de la terre. Le récit mythique : alors que le monde se présentait sous la forme d'une calebasse et que sa création n'était pas encore achevée, le créateur envoya l'un de ses ministres, Sakpata, pour parfaire la construction de la terre et pour la gouverner. Sakpata travailla à la fondation (de la célèbre cité) d'Ile-Ife considérée comme le berceau de l'humanité et pays de référence de nombreux peuples dans cette partie de l’Afrique. Devenue très vieux et abandonné par ses enfants, il se métamorphosa alors en une termitière habitée par un serpent. Sa signification : ces deux éléments - la termitière et le serpent - symbolisent ensemble la divinité de la terre qui, elle-même représente le couple primordial : l'homme et la femme. Ce récit met l'accent sur la responsabilité de l'homme qui doit entretenir de bons rapports avec la terre et avec ses semblables. De plus, il trace le chemin de la vodouisation de l'homme appelé à atteindre la vodouité : devenir lui-même dieu. Nous avons montré que ce mythe est le fondement des réalités socio-culturelles-économiques des peuples de cette région du mondeThis study is meant for young Beninese students as well as foreign readers, to help them to imagine the world of African mythology through a particular example. We have studied a cosmogonical myth, which is very well known in the whole region of Beninese coast. Its name is Sakpata: the god of earth. The mythical story: when the world was still in the shape of a gourd and it was not totally created, the creator send one of his ministers named Sakpata to achieve the making of the earth and to rule it. Sakpata founded the famous city of Ile-Ife. When he become very old, his sons deserted him and then he turned himself into a white ant-hill (termitarium) inhabited by a snake. Its meaning: these two elements together,- the white ant-hill and the snake-, go to make the god of earth, who is himself the symbolical representation of the original couple: the man and the woman. This myth constitutes the foundations of the societies and their economical and cultural realities, among the peoples in this area
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Mbele, Charles-Romain. "Mythologie et processus théogonique : examen de la question monothéiste dans la pensée africaine moderne au miroir du dernier Schelling." Paris 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA010704.
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Notre travail se propose d'interroger d'un point de vue philosophique l'idée d'une foi monothéiste originelle introduite par l'ethno-philosophie, un aspect de la théologie missionnaire, dans les débats philosophiques africains modernes. Ce courant de pensée part de cet a priori métaphysique tout en refusant de le problématiser par son adhésion à la vision africaine découverte - du fait de son africanité. Par ses choix méthodologiques et la stérilité de ses catégories (méthode linguistique comme mode d'accès privilégié à la culture et à la pensée africaines, philosophie servante de la théologie, retro-jection dans la tradition de croyances objectivement étrangères, etc. ), l'ethno-philosophie a acculé à de multiples impasses la réflexion philosophique africaine moderne. Aussi, en contrepoint de l'approche de Tempels et de Kagame - coryphees de l'ethno-philosophie - des penseurs africains refusent tout questionnement des mythes et de l'idée de Dieu : c'est le cas de P. Hountondji - par agnosticisme et par scientisme "épistémologiste" - et de F. Eboussi - par apophase. Pour sortir de ces apories, notre approche est archéologique : remonter aux lieux de genese des thèses de l'ethno-philosophie dans la théologie, la métaphysique traditionnelle, la philosophie et l'ethnologie religieuses du siècle dernier et du début de ce siècle, le courant de la négritude que l'ethno-philosophie voulait circonvenir. C'est le dernier schelling qui nous donne cette archéologie. En remontant à la philosophie positive, nous trouvons un axe philosophique pour saisir conceptuellement des questions apparemment disparates, afin de les reformuler. Le philosophe allemand circonscrit dans la théorie de l'émanation de F. Creuzer les difficultés et les incohérences théologiques et philosophiques de la révélation d'une foi monothéiste originelle, essentiellement le caractère négatif de ses concepts (dégénérescence, dégradation, effritement, déchéance, obscurcissement, etc). Il en trouve aussi les fondements dans l'idée du Dieu immuable de la métaphysique traditionnelle, à laquelle il oppose l'idée d'un "Dieu à venir", qui se "révèle". Dès lors l'existence, comme procès progressif, se détache pour se différencier d'un "fond" unilatéral qui est sa réserve et sa ressource permanentes, donnant au sujet individuel ou historique plus de richesse qu'il n'en a explicitement.
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Katuvadioko, Ndombe Gabriel. "De la poïesis au drama : ou de la dimension dramatique de la mythologie négro-africaine, à partir de deux exemples précis." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030071.
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Cette thèse s’est donné pour objectif de répondre à une question : la mythologie négro africaine, dont les textes tiennent essentiellement de l’oralité, peut-elle servir de support et/ou de substance à une écriture dramaturgique ? Pour y répondre, nous avons tenté - à partir de deux exemples, à savoir le mythe peul de Kaydara et un extrait de l’épopée fang du mvet de Zwè Nguéma - d’ouvrir des perspectives pour un éventuel travail de mise en forme théâtrale, à travers les articulations de l’intrigue de chaque récit. Nous en avons extrait les virtualités visuelles, sonores et corporelles susceptibles d’être mises en scène et transformées en langage scénique. Nous avons, pour ce faire, mis en valeur leur spécificité et leur intensité dramatiques. A travers la mise en relief d’éléments de structure dramaturgique, nous avons essayé d’élaborer un discours qui correspond aux exigences de la communication théâtraleThis thesis had to answer a question: can the negro-african mythology, whose accounts are essentially from oral tradition, be used as support and/or substance for dramaturgic writing? To answer this, we tried - starting from two examples, namely the Peul’s myth of Kaydara and an extract of the Fang’s epopee of the mvet of Zwè Nguéma Ŕ to offer perspectives for a possible work of theatrical setting through the articulations of the intrigue of each account. We extracted from them visual virtual settings, sound and body likely to be staged and transformed in staging language. We, with this intention, emphasized their dramatic specificity and intensity. Through the setting-up of the dramaturgic structure, we try to work out a speech that fits the requirements of theatrical communication
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Huy, Julien d'. "Nouvelles perspectives sur l'histoire de l'Afrique : mythologies, arts rupestres et génétique." Thesis, Paris 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA01H100.
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Dans ce travail, je chercherai à montrer l'intérêt d'une approche phylomémétique des mythes dans la perspective d’une reconstruction du peuplement de l’Afrique et du globe sur la très longue durée. Après une présentation historique de cette approche méthodologique, je soutiendrai que les mythes forment une classe, distincte et largement indépendante, de réplicateurs culturels dont le comportement et la fidélité peuvent rivaliser avec ceux des gènes et des langues, et montrerai qu'il est possible d’appliquer des outils informatiques utilisés en biologie à des familles de mythes ou de traditions orales pour tenter de répondre à des questions portant sur l'histoire des peuples et de leurs migrations, ou encore pour contribuer à l’interprétation des vestiges archéologiques. Je discuterai des objections communes à l'application de la modélisation phylogénétique aux mythes et mettrai en évidence l'extrême lenteur évolutive de certains d'entre eux. J’établirai ensuite une corrélation entre la diffusion des mythes et celle des gènes, ce qui me conduira à proposer, grâce à la construction d'arbres phylogénétiques, un modèle de diffusion des peuples en Afrique et à travers le monde. La forme première de plusieurs récits ou traditions orales, parfois antérieurs à la sortie d'Afrique, pourra ainsi être retrouvée, en même temps qu’un éclairage sur la signification de certains vestiges archéologiques – incluant l’art rupestre – pourra être apporté. Les résultats obtenus apparaissent solides, notamment du fait qu'ils résistent aux changements de corpus et de méthode, tout en demeurant cohérents avec ceux provenant d’autres approchesIn this dissertation, I will try to show you the interest of a phylomemetic approach of myths in the perspective of a reconstruction of the settlement of Africa, and of the globe over longterm.After an historical presentation of this methodological approach, I will argue that the myths form a distinct and largely independent class of cultural replicators whose behaviour and fidelity can rival those of genes and languages, and show that it is possible to apply computer tools used in biology to families of myths or oral traditions in an attempt to answer questions about the history of people and their migrations, or to contribute to the interpretation of archaeological remains.I will discuss common objections to the application of the phylogenetic model of myths, and highlight the extreme slowness of evolution for some of them. I will then establish a correlation between myths and gene diffusion, thanks to the construction of phylogenetic trees, a model of diffusion of peoples inside Africa and throughout the world.The first form of several oral narratives or traditions, sometimes existing prior to the Out-of-Africa process, can thus be found at the same time as a clarification on the meaning of certain archaeological remains including rock art can be brought. Results appear solid, in particular because they resist changes in the corpus and method and remain consistent with those from other approaches
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Viallet-Fournier, Marie-George. "Genèse et destin : pour une conception dynamogénique des mythes." Thesis, Dijon, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012DIJOL036/document.
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Si le mythe est devenu aujourd’hui une donnée incontournable pour comprendre l’âme humaine et ses différentes formes d’expression, il reste cependant équivoque et difficilement conceptualisable. En effet, le mythe est à la fois compris comme un récit fictif qui ne repose sur aucun fond de réalité mais aussi comme un discours vrai et hautement significatif. Pour bien marquer le sens philosophique de notre travail, nous avons commencé par poser le problème du mythe tel qu’il évolue dans la pensée européenne. Le mythe souffre d’une trop longue histoire, il a été déchiré entre rationalisme et romantisme. Puis nous avons questionné d’autres civilisations – les Fon du Dahomey, au Bénin – pour qui le mythe représente tout ce que les hommes doivent savoir et comprendre pour bien s’ancrer dans l’existant. Elles nous donnent à voir un mythe authentique, vivant, inséparable d’une gestuelle magico-religieuse. Ainsi le vrai sens du mythe ne se trouve pas dans nos livres, dans un Homère ou un Hésiode, mais dans le vécu même des hommes. Il est d’abord élaboré par les sociétés primitives, par des groupes d’hommes qui ne vivent que par et pour lui, avant d’être écrit, classé, interprété et réinterprété. Il semblerait à cet égard que Gaston Bachelard, à la fois poète et épistémologue, se soit intéressé au mythe. Il nous livre ainsi une réflexion originale, libre et ouverte qui nous en donne une autre image. Il pose le problème du mythe en soi, au cœur de l’écrit et, riche de ses lectures, il jette les bases d’une nouvelle mythanalyse. La compréhension du mythe semble pour nous incontournable aujourd’hui, car notre civilisation a irrémédiablement coupé entre les informations portées par des images et celles portées par les systèmes d’écritures. Cette rupture est sans doute la cause de cette grave crise spirituelle que nous traversons. Le mythe semble à cet égard salutaire : il nous reconduit directement vers les grands principes de la création, création du monde ou bien création poétique, il ré-enchante le mondeIf the myth has become today an unavoidable fact to understand the human soul and its different forms of expression, it remains, however, ambiguous and hardly conceptualizing. Indeed, the myth is at once understood as a fictitious narrative which isn’t based on any in-depth reality, but also as a real and highly significant discourse. In order to underline the philosophical meaning of our work, we have begun by assert the myth problem such as it evolves in the European thought. The myth is badly affected by a too long history; it has been divided between rationalism and romanticism. Then, we have questioned other civilizations – Fon from Dahomey, Benin – for whose myth represents all the human being must know and understand to become established in existing. They show us an authentic myth, alive, indivisible from a magical-religious body language. Thus, the real meaning of myth is not in our books, in Homere or Hésiode, but in the real life of humans. It is, first of all, evolved by the original societies, by human groups which lived for it and by it, before being written, classified, interpreted and re-interpreted. It would seem, in this regard, that Gaston Bachelard, at once poet and epistemologist, took interest in myth. He reveals us an original reflection, free and open which gives us another image. He asserts the problem of the myth itself, at the heart of writing and, as a rich reader, he lays the basis of a new myth-analysis. The understanding of the myth seems for u unavoidable today because our civilization has cut off, irreparably, between the information brought by images and those brought by the writing systems. This fracture is, no doubt, the reason of this serious spiritual crisis we pass on. The myth seems, in this regard, salutary: it renews us directly towards the great principles of the creation, creation of the world or poetic creation, it re-enchants the world
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Zacharias, Maria Alice [UNESP]. "A contribuição da mitologia africana na formação escolar dos sujeitos da EJA." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/152008.
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Este trabalho teve como objetivo principal analisar a contribuição da mitologia africana como instrumento educativo de maneira interdisciplinar na educação de pessoas jovens e adultas (EJA). Foram focalizadas as metáforas contidas nos mitos africanos como elementos relevantes de articulação com o cotidiano dos sujeitos da EJA. Assim sendo, espera-se que a mitologia africana, articulada com os conteúdos escolares, possibilite às educandas e aos educandos maior compreensão dos conceitos científicos, quando estes partem de histórias orais produzidas pela humanidade para explicar a criação do mundo; a nossa existência e os ciclos da natureza; a vida e morte e outros temas. Deste modo, realizou-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica, seguida de uma análise crítica e reflexiva sobre as temáticas em questão e, posteriormente, seguindo o mesmo rigor científico analisou-se uma atividade educativa aplicada em sala de aula da educação de jovens e adultos do quinto ano do período noturno. Os resultados das análises das pesquisas demonstraram que a inserção da mitologia africana no ambiente escolar é potencializadora no processo de aprendizagem dos conteúdos científicos; a partir do momento em que os sujeitos da EJA conseguem perceber a articulação entre a metáfora e o conhecimento científico durante a participação no desenvolvimento das atividades educativas. Os resultados trouxeram elementos importantes, pois mostram a necessidade de um estudo mais aprofundado sobre as metáforas contidas nos mitos africanos, uma vez que, nem sempre é possível fazer essa articulação com facilidade. A pesquisa evidenciou a necessidade de mais pesquisas e leituras por parte dos professores para que a articulação entre o conteúdo científico e a metáfora seja perceptível durante a aplicação das atividades, consequentemente, para que os próprios estudantes consigam interagir e dialogar sobre o conteúdo científico e potencializar a aprendizagem.
This work aimed to analyze the contribution of African mythology as an educational tool as an interdisciplinary form in the education of youths and adults (EJA).The metaphors contained in the African myths were focused as relevant elements of articulation into the daily life of the students of the EJA. Thus, it is hoped that African mythology, articulated with school content, will enable learners to better understand scientific concepts, when they depart from oral histories produced by human kind to explain the creation of the world; our existence and the cycles of nature; life and death and other themes. In this way, a bibliographical research was carried out, followed by a critical and reflexive analysis on the subjects in question and, later, following the same scientific rigor an educational activity was applied in a fifth year classroom of the education of youths and adults of the night period. The results of the analysis of the researches showed that the insertion of the African mythology in the school environment is potentiating the process of learning the scientific contents; from the moment in which the students of the EJA can understand the articulation between the metaphor and the scientific knowledge during the participation in the development of the educative activities. The results have brought important elements, since they show the need for a more in-depth study of the metaphors contained in African myths, since it is not always possible to make this articulation with ease. The research evidenced the need for more research and reading by the teachers so that the articulation between the scientific content and the metaphor is perceptible during the application of the activities, consequently, so that the students themselves can interact and dialogue about the scientific content and potentialize the Learn.
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Poli, Ivan da Silva. "A importância do estudo das mitologias e gêneros literários da oralidade africana e afro-brasileira no contexto educacional brasileiro: a relevância da Lei 10639/03." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-28012015-131659/.
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A presente pesquisa teve como objeto de estudo o estudo dos mitos e dos gêneros da literatura oral africanos e afro-brasileiros. A questão que orientou a nossa investigação é a seguinte: Quando se valoriza a afirmação cultural e identitária no processo escolar como um todo a escola passa a ser menos reprodutora das estruturas sociais atuais? A mesma teve como objetivos: identificar, discutir e averiguar a importância da afirmação cultural e identitária no processo a partir do estudo dos mitos africanos e afro-brasileiros utilizando como objeto de estudo os gêneros da literatura oral africana e afro-brasileira a fim de ressaltar a relevância da lei 10639/03 na educação brasileira. O referencial teórico deste trabalho foi composto pelos seguintes autores:Bourdieu, Winnicottn, Joseph Campbell, Charlot , Lahire, Jean Biarnès, Abadi, Antonio Risério, Sikiru Salami , Juarez Xavier, Nilce da Silva, Ivan da Silva Poli. Os sujeitos que participaram desta investigação foram os professores e alunos da Escola do Ile de Opo Afonjá de Salvador A metodologia de pesquisa utilizada para a construção do capítulo da pesquisa de campo foi qualitativa com características dos espaços de criação (cf. Winnicott, 2002, 2000 e 1990), Biarnès (1999) e Silva (2002).The present research had as study object the study of myths and genres from African-Brazilian and African oral literature. The question that guided our research is the following: When cultural and identitary affirmation is valorized in the school process as a whole school becomes less reproductive of current social structures? These research had as goals to: identify, assess and discuss the importance of cultural and identity affirmation in the process from the study of African myths and African-Brazilian using as the object of study of African oral literature genres and African-Brazilian in order to emphasize the relevance of the Law 10639/03 in Brazilian education. The theoretical framework of this study was composed of the following authors: Bourdieu, Winnicottn, Joseph Campbell, Charlot , Lahire, Jean Biarnès, Abadi, Antonio Risério, Sikiru Salami , Juarez Xavier, Nilce da Silva, Ivan da Silva Poli. The subjects who participated in this investigation were the teachers and pupils of the Ile Opo Afonjá of Salvador. The research methodology used for the construction of the chapter of the field research was qualitative featuring the \'creative spaces\' (cf. Winnicott, 2002 , 2000 and 1990) Biarnes (1999) and Silva (2002).
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Diaz, Herbert Ndango. "A definitive edition and analysis of the Tjakova myth of the Vakavango." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15985.
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Bibliography: pages 364-375.The field work for this thesis was never a "safe" project, but a very important one it a people's heritage (the Vakavango heritage), which includes memories of generations of migration and therefore some potentially highly informative data, was not to be lost. The project, concerned with the traditions of a people living on both sides of the Kavango river, on the border of Angola and Namibia, began when the Angolan civil war was already in full swing on the northern bank and the liberation struggle was already heating up in Namibia. The first purpose was to produce a definitive version of the most important myth cycle of the Vakavango, the myth in which Tjakova is the chief actor. The second purpose was to subject the myth to analysis as one expression of these peoples' religion. These two purposes are interactive. To decide what must be included and what excluded in a definitive version of the myth is to have already begun analysis.
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Boaro, Júlio César. "Esculpir o tempo: arte, educação e ancestralidade entre os Fons, os Iorubás e os Tchokwes." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-30092013-161541/.
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Esta dissertação aponta para um caminho cuja trajetória é a busca e o entendimento da complexidade da arte e da cultura africana, especialmente da África subsaariana e, dessa forma, contribuir para uma reflexão sobre a formação da cultura brasileira nos seus modos de ser e de pensar, através das características atribuídas aos descendentes de africanos que para o Brasil foram trazidos na condição de escravos. Nosso ponto de partida é a religiosidade de matriz africana reinventada no Brasil, e o motivo pelo qual a escolhemos como base, sem nos aprofundarmos em seus significados, é que ela guarda, mesmo que recriados, traços importantes da linguagem e de um modo de ser que refletem uma maneira muito peculiar característica dos habitantes daquele continente. Aportando nossos estudos no citado território, especialmente nos sítios dos iorubás (Nigéria, principalmente), dos fons (Benim) e dos tchokwes (Angola e Congo), utilizamos a arte não somente como uma maneira de expressão da cultura, mas também apresentando a produção escultórica como uma forma de dialogar com a mitologia. História, arte, mitologia, ancestralidade, poesia e educação africana estão presentes nesta pesquisa que também visa contribuir com as Leis 10639/03 e 11.645/08, de ensino de história e culturas africanas e afro-brasileiras nas salas de aula.This work points to a path whose trajectory is seeking and understanding of the complexity of art and African culture, especially Sub-Saharan Africa and thereby contribute to a reflection on the formation of Brazilian culture in their ways of being and thinking, through the characteristics attributed to the descendants of Africans who were brought to Brazil as slaves. Our starting point is the religiosity of African reinvented in Brazil, and the reason we chose as the base, without delving into their meanings, is that she keeps, even recreated important features of language and a way of being that reflect a very peculiar characteristic of the inhabitants of that continent. Bringing our studies in the said territory, especially in sites Yoruba (Nigeria, mostly), the fons (Benin) and tchokwes (Angola and Congo), we use the art not only as a way of expression of culture, but also showing the production sculpture as a form of dialogue with the mythology. History, art, mythology, ancestry, poetry and African education are present in this study also aims to contribute to the Laws 10639/03 and 11.645/08, teaching history and African cultures and african-Brazilian classrooms.
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Hajji, Jamel. "Conflits et amours mythiques représentés sur des mosaïques de l’Afrique proconsulaire du Bas-Empire : fin du IIIe siècle – début du Ve siècle." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009LYO20043.
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Cette étude cherche à appréhender la place qu’avaient occupée les Conflits et les Amours mythiques dans la mosaïque de l’Afrique Proconsulaire au Bas-Empire (fin du IIIème - début du Vème siècle). Aussi, savoir la nature des sujets, les modalités d’assimilation figurative, l’évolution des concepts, ainsi que les rapports qu’auraient eus les mosaïstes ou les commanditaires avec une culture considérée comme étrangère. Pour chaque mosaïque sont mis en évidence les apports respectifs de l’iconographie et de la littérature. Les composantes structurelles et conjoncturelles de chaque image, à savoir le cadre de l’action, les personnages, les modèles et les formules iconographiques, ainsi que les modalités de mise en scène, sont examinés de plus prés. s’interrogeant sur l’insistance des empreints, l’interchangeabilité entre thèmes, nous remettons en question des idées devenues avec le temps comme des dogmes, telle la totale dépendance de la mosaïque de l’Afrique Proconsulaire aux tendances artistiques de l’époque et son incapacité à se détacher de l’hégémonie des arts dits majeurs, et nous montrons que les mosaïstes africains ne sont pas de simples imitateurs, mais de véritables novateurs. D’autres approches sont nécessaires pour mettre nos mosaïques dans leurs contextes architecturaux et décoratifs d’origines. Ceci permettant d’aborder les problématiques liées aux relations sémantiques, vise à connaître les modalités d’insertions utilisées dans le reste de l’Empire, mais aussi de s’interroger sur la validité de certaines idées, comme l’existence d’une codification régissant les scènes représentées et les contextes architecturaux.Enfin le replacement de la mosaïque, et à l’intérieur d’une production artistique englobant toutes les autres disciplines, et la prise en considération de toutes les particularités, géographiques, historiques, sociales et culturelles de l’Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire, montre qu’il est difficile, voire impossible, de mesurer le rapport exact entre fonction administrative, statut financier et niveau culturel des commanditaires. Au lieu de continuer de parler de l’existence d’une même et une seul culture élitiste à laquelle adhère tous les aristocrates de l’Empire, il serait nécessaire de surpasser certains a priori et parler de diversités et de différences que de ressemblancesThe object of this thesis is the review of the conflicts and mythological love endeavors depicted in the Africa Proconsularis mosaics in the Late Antiquity period. In the meantime, one of the main aims is the study of the subject of the mosaics, the manners of the figurative assimilation, the evolution of the concept, and also the relation between the mosaic makers and a culture considered as a foreign one.For each mosaic are highlighted the respective contributions of the iconography and literature. The structural and conjectural components of each image, meaning the setting of the actions, the characters, the models and the iconographic formulas, and the methods of the production are examined more narrowly; questioning the insistence of imprints, interchange- ability between subjects. We are putting into question theories which has become over time as a dogma, such as the total dependence of the mosaic of Africa Proconsularis to the artistic trends of the time and the inability to separate from the hegemony of the arts alias the major; and we will try to demonstrate that the African mosaic makers were not mere imitators, but truly innovators.Moreover, other approaches are needed to put the mosaics within their architectural and decorative context. These approaches will allow addressing issues related to semantic relations, aiming to find out the modality of the insertion in the rest of the Empire, but also to investigate the validity of certain theories, such as the existence of a codification as a regulator linking the scenes presented and the architectural contexts.Finally, the replacement of the mosaic, in the artistic production encompassing all the other disciplines, taking into consideration all the geographical, historical, social particularities, and the cultural aspects of Roman Africa during the Late Antiquity, which give evidence that it is difficult or impossible to measure the exact relationship between administrative function, financial status and cultural level of the elite sponsors. Instead of, continuing to discuss about the existence of only an elitist culture that adheres to all the aristocracy of the Empire, it would need to exceed some a priori and talk about diversity and differences rather than only similarities
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Mello, Leonardo Tondato de. "O envelhecer: uma análise junguiana na mitologia africana." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2016. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12469.
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This work aims to provide for scholars psychologists of gerontology and professionals from various areas, an analysis of old age, taking into account the assumptions of analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung and Jungian mythology, thus providing more insight about aging, expanding the study this theme, yet so unknown. The deities are here seen as archetypal models, ways of aging, pointing to the individuation process described in Jung's work. To have that in the light of African mythology and analytical psychology there is interrelation between the issues, thus bringing another conception of aging
Este trabalho visa proporcionar para psicólogos estudiosos da gerontologia e profissionais das diversas áreas, uma análise da velhice, levando em conta os pressupostos da psicologia analítica de Carl Gustav Jung e a mitologia junguiana, desta forma fornecendo mais uma visão acerca do envelhecimento, ampliando o estudo deste tema, ainda tão desconhecido. Os orixás são aqui vistos como modelos arquetípicos, formas de envelhecimento, que apontam para o processo de individuação descrito na obra de Jung. Têm-se que à luz da mitologia africana e a psicologia analítica há inter relação entre as temáticas, trazendo, assim, outra concepção sobre o envelhecimento
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Williams, Annette Lyn. "Our mysterious mothers| The primordial feminine power of aje in the cosmology, mythology, and historical reality of the West African Yoruba." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3643206.
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Among the Yoruba àjé&dotbelow; is the primordial force of causation and creation. Àjé&dotbelow; is the power of the feminine, of female divinity and women, and àjé&dotbelow; is the women themselves who wield this power. Unfortunately, àjé&dotbelow; has been translated witch/witchcraft with attendant malevolent connotations. Though the fearsome nature of àjé&dotbelow; cannot be denied, àjé&dotbelow; is a richly nuanced term. Examination of Yoruba sacred text, Odu Ifa, reveals àjé&dotbelow; to be an endowment gifted to female divinity from the Source of Creation. Female divinity empowered their mortal daughters with àjé&dotbelow;—spiritual and temporal power exercised in religious, judicial, political, and economic domains throughout Yoruba history. However, in contemporary times àjé&dotbelow; have been negatively branded as witches and attacked.
The dissertation investigates factors contributing to the duality in attitude towards àjé&dotbelow; and factors that contributed to the intensified representation of their fearsome aspects to the virtual disavowal of their positive dimensions. Employing transdisciplinary methodology and using multiple lenses, including hermeneutics, historiography, and critical theory, the place of àjé&dotbelow; within Yoruba cosmology and historical reality is presented to broaden understanding and appreciation of the power and role of àjé&dotbelow; as well as to elucidate challenges to àjé&dotbelow;. Personal experiences of àjé&dotbelow; are spoken to within the qualitative interviews. Individuals with knowledge of àjé&dotbelow; were interviewed in Yorubaland and within the United States.
Culture is not static. A critical reading of Odu Ifa reveals the infiltration of patriarchal influence. The research uncovered that patriarchal evolution within Yoruba society buttressed and augmented by the patriarchy of British imperialism as well as the economic and social transformations wrought by colonialism coalesced to undermine àjé&dotbelow; power and function.
In our out-of-balance world, there might be wisdom to be gleaned from beings that were given the charge of maintaining cosmic balance. Giving proper respect and honor to "our mothers" (awon iya wa) who own and control àjé&dotbelow;, individuals are called to exercise their àjé&dotbelow; in the world in the cause of social justice, to be the guardians of a just society.
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Poston, Lance E. "Deconstructing Sodom and Gomorrah: A Historical Analysis of the Mythology of Black Homophobia." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1536608616555175.
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Mack-Washington, Marta Notai. "From both sides of the plate : Negro league baseball's Effa Manley disrupts the American mythology of race and ethnicity, 1897-1948." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5963.
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Imagine for a moment waking up one morning to find that what or with whom you had come to identify racially was built on a foundation of ambiguities, silences, deceptions and sacred secrets. This scenario offers snapshot of Effa Louisa Brooks Manley’s life on the color line. Manley, former co-owner of the Negro League Baseball franchise (1935-1948), the Newark Eagles, disrupts American notions about what it means to be Black or white. A white mother and two black stepfathers raised her with her siblings as a Negro. However, it was not until Manley was a teenager that her mother revealed to her that her biological father also racially identified as white. This study examines the way Effa Manley performed identity at the boundaries of blackness and whiteness from the turn of the 20th century through 1945. I argue that Manley was more than a white woman who simply passed for Black. She reconciled being Black and becoming white, by exploiting the American mythology of race and culturally identified as a Negro. I explore how her self-identification complicates racial and ethnic belonging, by analyzing the identity choices she made while traversing the fault lines of race in her early life as well as the way she performed identity in the interviews she gave before her death in 1981.
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Djama, Said Ared. "La femme dans la littérature d'expression française de la Corne de l'Afrique." Thesis, Dijon, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012DIJOL015.
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Dans la littérature de la Corne de l’Afrique d’expression française, on assiste très souvent à l’image caricaturée des personnages féminins qui sont engagés dans un quotidien difficile à vivre. Aussi bien dans les textes de Waberi que dans ceux de Nuruddin Farah, les personnages féminins sont constamment en fuite pour échapper au destin tragique d’une existence douloureuse où la misère morale et matérielle constitue un obstacle majeur. Si l’un des facteurs qui tend les personnages féminins vers une marginalisation effective est en rapport avec un espace acariâtre, dominé « par la volonté assassine d’un soleil impérial » (Waberi : 2002.32), il y en a également d’autres qui contribuent à étouffer leur identité dans un environnement traditionnel où « tout ce qui sort du troupeau est l’ailleurs, le lointain inconnu, les limbes du néant » (Waberi : 2002.104), . Nous intégrons cette perception essentiellement misogyne dans une dimension critique où la marginalisation liée à l’exploration du corps féminin dans Les Nuits d’Addis-Abeba se précise au fil de la narration à travers les différents rites sexuels gravés dans la chair des personnages féminins comme « une surface sur laquelle la société inscrit les différentes modalités de transaction » (Rangira Gallimore : 1994. 56). La présente thèse s’interroge dans un premier temps sur les problématiques liées à la question du genre dans l’univers romanesque des écrivains de la Corne de l’Afrique tout en prenant en considération l’imaginaire populaire et les faits sociologiques relatifs aux représentations de la femme dans cette même zone géographiqueIn the Horn of Africa French-speaking literature, there are very often the caricatured images of female characters who are engaged in a difficult daily life. In both texts Waberi and Nuruddin Farah, female characters are constantly on the run to escape the tragic fate of a painful existence where moral and material/financial poverty is a major obstacle. If one of the factors that tends the female characters towards effective marginalization is related to a cantankerous space, dominated “by the vicious will of an imperial Sun”, there are also others who are contributing to stifle their identity in a traditional environment where "anything out of the herd is the elsewhere, the unknown distance, the limbo of oblivion”. We integrate this essentially misogynist perception in a critical size where marginalization related to exploration of the female body in” the nights in Addis Ababa takes shape over the narrative through exploitation the sexual rites that is graved in the flesh of female characters as” a surface where society registers the various terms of transaction”. This present thesis questions initially on issues related to the gender issue in the novelistic universe of writers while taking into account the popular imagination on the representations of women in the Horn of Africa
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Zoumanigui, Akoye Massa. "L'Epopée de Zébéla Tokpa Pivi : Culture Loma, performance, genres narratifs et non narratifs." Thesis, Besançon, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011BESA1031.
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Notre projet de thèse vise à analyser ce qui porte la trace du travail de la mémoire collective dans un discours de littérature orale, de la transmission qui assure la compréhension et la conservation du message. Il s'agit pour nous d'expliquer comment la profération du discours de littérature orale et la performance à laquelle il donne lieu restitue les valeurs culturelles des loma.Cette épopée retrace l'histoire d'un chef de guerre qui fait encore de nos jours partie de la culture populaire au pays des loma en République de Guinée. Nous assurons la transcription en langue locale lɔɠɔmagooy et la traduction en français de cette épopée dont il n'existe aucune version écrite.Au-delà de la présentation géographique et culturelle du pays des loma, l'analyse proprement dite du corpus pour laquelle nous mobilisons à la fois la performance et la rhétorique prend en compte la pluricodicité des messages socio-historico-culturel et la dynamique de réception. Nous focalisons l'attention sur des procédés discursifs spécifiques de l'oralité à travers le conte et le proverbe.Notre travail ne se limite pas à la transcription-traduction du discours épique, l'analyse montre comment l'oralité constitue une dimension essentielle de l'épopée dont l'épaisseur discursive et référentielle atteste du travail de composition artistique et mémorielle de l'orateurThis thesis aims at analyzing the collective memory content imbedded in an oral literature speech performance, right from the message transmission to its understanding and preservation. We are to explain how an oral literature speech production and its performance can retitute the Loma cultural values.The epic retraces the history of a former war leader among the Loma people of the Republic of Guinea; a history which still remains a vibrant part of the people's culture in that country. Because it doesn't exist any former written version of the epic, we ensured its transcription into Lɔɠɔmagooh language (a loma variant) and also its translation into French language.Beside the geographical and cultural presentation of the Loma area and people, the real corpus analysis in which we mobilize both performance and rethorics also takes into account the multicoding nature of the social, historical and cultural messages and their reception dynamics. We focus attention on the specific discursive technics of oral literature or tradition which exist in tales and proverbs.However, our work is not just limited to transcription and translation of the epic production. Our analysis shows how oral tradition constitutes an essential dimension of the epic genre whose discursive and referential deepness is the reflection of the artistic and memorial work of the orator
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Meiring, Arnold Maurits. "Heart of Darkness a deconstruction of traditional Christian concepts of reconciliation by means of a religious studies perspective on the Christian and African religions /." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10312005-093457/.
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Squibb, Catherine. "Tobacco and Tar Babies: The Trickster as a Cultural Hero in Winnebago and African American Myth." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/313.
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This thesis explores the trickster character through the lens of his role as a cultural hero. The two characters that I chose to examine are from North American myth, specifically Winnebago Hare and Brer Rabbit. These two characters represent the duality of the trickster while simultaneously embodying the lauded abilities of the hero. Through their actions these two characters shape culture through the very action of disrupting societal norms.
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Kerestetzi, Katerina. "Vivre avec les morts : réinvention, transmission et légitimation des pratiques du palo monte (Cuba)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA100179.
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Cette thèse a pour objet le palo monte, culte initiatique d’origine bantoue que l’on pratique aujourd’hui sur tout le territoire cubain. Ses adeptes, les paleros, se lient rituellement à certains esprits des morts, les nfumbis, afin de bénéficier de leurs pouvoirs extraordinaires. Religion peu prescriptive, le palo monte laisse à ses adeptes une grande latitude en matière d’innovation rituelle et d’improvisation. En l’absence de corpus mythologique, de textes sacrés, de liturgie fixe et de toute autorité institutionnalisée, chaque groupe initiatique définit sa méthodologie religieuse de façon autonome. L’objectif de cette thèse est d’expliciter comment des pratiques religieuses se créent, se légitiment et se transmettent dans un contexte de variabilité extrême. Je porte d’abord une attention particulière à la matérialité du culte et tout particulièrement aux interactions quotidiennes entre les paleros et leur nganga, chaudron qui condense la présence du mort : objet-sujet omniscient, la nganga médiatise un réseau relationnel complexe qui permet l’émergence en continu des pratiques du palo monte. Je m’intéresse ensuite aux rites paleros en tant que performances au cours desquelles les prêtres forgent leur réputation en créant une sorte de cosmologie personnalisée. Tout en proposant une analyse interactionnelle de ces rituels, je montre comment certains aspects de la personnalité des adeptes interviennent dans la définition de la forme rituelle de chaque groupe. Enfin, je montre comment les actes réflexifs des paleros, omniprésents sous la forme de critiques, de justifications, de confrontations, etc. sont constitutifs de la transmission et du renouvellement des pratiquesThis thesis is on palo monte, a Cuban initiatory religion of Bantu origin, widespread over all Cuban territory. Its worshippers, the paleros, establish ritual bonds with determined spirits of the dead, called nfumbis, in order to receive their supernatural powers. Imposing a small number of prescriptions, palo monte enables its devotees to operate a wide range of ritual innovations and improvisations. Indeed, the inexistence of a mythological corpus, a sacred text or a strict liturgy, and more generally of any kind of institutionalized authority, allows every initiatory group to define its religious methodology in an autonomous way. The aim of this research is to explain how these religious practises are created, legitimized and transmitted in a context which allows for extreme variability. In this perspective, the analysis focuses primarily on palo monte’s materiality and more specifically to the daily interactions between the paleros and their nganga, a cauldron condensing the presence of a dead man. I argue that the nganga, as an omniscient object-subject, mediates a complex relational network and enables a constant reinvention of palo monte’s ritual practises. I focus thus on palero rituals as performances through which priests make a name for themselves by creating a kind of customized cosmology. By putting forward an interactional analysis of these/their rituals, I show how determined aspects of the adepts’ personalities intercede in the definition of each groups’ ritual patterns. Finally, I point out how paleros’ reflexive acts – in the form of pervasive critique, vindication, debates, etc. – are constitutive of their practices’ transmission and renewal
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Ukize, Servilien. "La lecture intertextuelle de L'ivrogne dans la brousse d'Amos Tutuola." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/7277.
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Mapanzure, Rangarirayi. "Writing Dictatorship, Rewriting African Writing: Mythology, Temporality and Power." Thesis, 2011. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/30125.
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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfilment of the requirements of degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Johannesburg, 2020Abstract This study explores the various representations of the dictator and the postcolonial condition in what can be termed the African dictator text. Adopting a panoramic approach that selects texts from several regions of Africa, the study critically examines the ambivalence and paradox of power, focusing on the various strategies devised and deployed by African writers to re-interpret and re-imagine postcolonial identities, time, space and authority in a globalised terrain, while arguing that the selected texts simultaneously entrench and destabilise content, form, views, attitudes, positions and meaning. The study also argues, in this respect, that the selected texts problematize representation of the performance of power as they reinforce, perpetuate and destabilise age-old but persistent stereo-typical notions of ‘exoticism’, ‘backwardness’ and the ‘dark continent’. This comes out through what the study sees as the collusion, tension and entanglement of myths, power and temporality which places the African and the continent in a completely different time-frame. The conclusion reached is that the dictator text continues to be an arena where African experiences are vigorously interrogated, re-interpreted and re-imagined, and in the process, the genre continues to spawn new and innovative strategies of representing the perennially confounding African postcolonial condition.
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Mapanzure, Rangarirayi. "Writing dictatorship, rewriting African writing: mythology, temporality and power." Thesis, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/30125.
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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfilment of the requirements of degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Johannesburg, 2020Abstract This study explores the various representations of the dictator and the postcolonial condition in what can be termed the African dictator text. Adopting a panoramic approach that selects texts from several regions of Africa, the study critically examines the ambivalence and paradox of power, focusing on the various strategies devised and deployed by African writers to re-interpret and re-imagine postcolonial identities, time, space and authority in a globalised terrain, while arguing that the selected texts simultaneously entrench and destabilise content, form, views, attitudes, positions and meaning. The study also argues, in this respect, that the selected texts problematize representation of the performance of power as they reinforce, perpetuate and destabilise age-old but persistent stereo-typical notions of ‘exoticism’, ‘backwardness’ and the ‘dark continent’. This comes out through what the study sees as the collusion, tension and entanglement of myths, power and temporality which places the African and the continent in a completely different time-frame. The conclusion reached is that the dictator text continues to be an arena where African experiences are vigorously interrogated, re-interpreted and re-imagined, and in the process, the genre continues to spawn new and innovative strategies of representing the perennially confounding African postcolonial condition.
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Martin, Michael Denny. "Richard Wright's revision of the Jim Crow mythology in Uncle Tom's children." 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1462719.
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Marais, Carin. "Die neerslag van die Noorse mitologie op enkele Afrikaanse en Nederlandse letterkundige werke." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12502.
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Magano, Thato. "Of patriarchy, madness, mythology, and the queer in nation making: a critique on tropes of sexualities in post-colonial African literatures." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/25965.
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Masters in African Literature
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University of WitwatersrandThis research report interrogates how queer sexualities are represented in postcolonial African literatures. It queries representations of queer sexualities and their place in the fiction of the nation. It deploys queer as the coopted marker of pride and liberation that was deployed by gender and sexuality activists in the gay liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and subsequently, gender and sexuality scholars in contemporary times. It relies on this articulation of queer to locate homosexuality and same-sex desire at the centre of an argument about the development of the idea of the African nation, and how this idea continues to locate same-sex desire and sexuality outside of or hidden in discussions about dominant modes of sexuality expressions. It reads Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958/1962) in conversation with Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (1988) and K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001) to explore the discursive modalities through which queer sexualities circulate in these seminal works, and to interrogate the extent to which they employ Achebe’s fictional world as integral to what it means to be African. This exploration is located within a set of assumptions about how the African nation is reproduced, and how modes of living and existing, are determined in African literature. Central to its argument, it meditates on the narrative closures employed by Achebe, Dangarembga and Duiker to determine how they facilitate, challenge, affirm or disrupt the sanctity of the heterosexual African nation through the circulation of patriarchal constructions of masculinity and same-sex desires and sexuality. The report explores the extent to which the texts deploy mythology and madness as points of entry into transgressive modes of existence within the nation. It further considers the role of the archive in imagining the queer body in the nation and the power dynamics that instruct the reading of same-sex desiring and homosexual bodies as non-normative. It argues that due to the exclusion of same-sex desiring and homosexual bodies in what constitutes the imaginary of the African nation in negotiating the nation’s anxiety about benefiting from the nations affect schema, the excluded bodies are burdened with the work of excavating from historical archives to legitimate their existence. In using the archive, the report argues that queer bodies enact resistance by un-silencing the archive and excavating the costs of a collective forgetting process that facilitates the postcolonial project of civilized sensibilities. This work is undertaken to perform historical commentary that trespasses the dominant modes of erasure that continue to locate the queer body as outside the experience of Blackness. The report ultimately makes a case for the productive capacity of interrogating and reporting Black abjection in order to construct epistemological frameworks that enable a pedagogy that re-memories and re-members those that the nation opts to erase. It argues for a disavowal of fictions about progress that are predicated on a desire that fits within the scope of liberal conceptions of progress and civility. As a mode of re-memory-ing and re-member-ing, this report proposes an affinity for irresolvability with regards to conceptions of subjecthood in order to negotiate nationmaking projects that are liberatory for those who have been historically placed outside of the complicated and irresolvable matrix of national sentiment that privileges heterosexual sexuality expressions.
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Nyamilandu, Stephen Evance Macrester Trinta. "Myth and the treatment of non-human animals in classical and African cultures : a comparative study." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18664.
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This dissertation of limited scope, part of a Course-work Master’s in Ancient Languages and Cultures, consists of five chapters which deal with issues relating to the perception and literary treatment of non-human animals in African and Classical traditional stories involving animal characters. The focus of the research was placed upon arguing that: human characteristics were attributed to animal creatures in the myths/traditional stories from both cultures; both cultures made attempts to explain how certain animals became domesticated and how others remained wild; mythical thinking is not a preserve of one culture, it is rather part of human nature; mythical monsters are present in both cultures and that they have always to be destroyed by man, though not easily; myths served several functions for both cultures, ranging from educational entertainment to socializing purposes, to making attempts to explain ancient man’s environment and its happenings. The study was undertaken in the hope of enabling certain recommendations to be formulated, on the basis of the findings, to effect a better and more informed strategy for teaching Classical Mythology and Classics, in general, in the Mawian/African context.Classics & World Languages
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Aspinall, Kelle J. "Great Zimbabwe : well of ancient wisdom : an examination of traditional Karanga mythology, symbolism and ritual towards an interpretation of spatial distribution and contextual meaning of symbolic structures and settlement dynamics of the royal settlement of Central Great Zimbabwe." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2549.
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The intention of this thesis is to examine the possibility of seeing mythology and ritual as sources for understanding spiritual, symbolic and spatial structures in architecture. Mythology and ritual are used as sources of creativity for examining a culture's architecture and as a way to understand the creative and cultural processes informing an architectural record. Central Great Zimbabwe is used as a case study for examining this. Karanga ethnography has not previously been considered as a source for interpreting Great Zimbabwe. However, historical evidence documented in this thesis shows that the Karanga were the creators and occupiers of Great Zimbabwe. The study pursues the need expressed by P. 1. Sinclair to consider the mythology of the region as an informative tool to understanding the symbolic values inherent in the landscape of settlement dynamics and symbolic structures; ...one might expect such aspects of material culture as architectural style and settlement layout, organisation and decorative motifs as well as a choice of subsistence needs to be strongly influenced larger scale expressions ofsymbolic values... exist in the expressions of kingship and power Further illustrations might include the associations of the granite mountains found throughout the plateau margins with the widespread distributions ofstone buildings. The mythology of the region has been little considered from this point ofview (Sinclair, P. 1987: 159). The study sets out to test Sinclair's observation by examining whether the Karanga symbolic values sourced from the mythology and ritual practices of the region may be reflected in the settlement dynamics and spatio-symbolic expression of Central Great Zimbabwe. Parts of the study examine Thomas Huffman's fieldwork, documentation and methodology. As the most prolific documenter on Great Zimbabwe, with the most recent interpretations, Huffman's findings are rec.orded and discussed in detail and his hypothesis for domba (initiation centre) function for the Great Enclosure is tested against the information evident in Karanga mythology and ritual. Since his hypothesis is widely criticised by his colleagues, this criticism is also included in this study as an informative tool to contextualise this field of research and outline the current ethno-archaeologica1 debate concerning the function of the Great Enclosure. This dissertation takes a different approach to that of Huffman and therefore the outcome of this study deviates from that of Huffman's. lIDs study adopts a synchronic approach to history while HufIman's methodology is a structuralist one and takes a more diachronic approach. Since both approaches are necessary in this field of study, the synchronic approach here is seen as a way of contributing new information and interpretation to the field. The intention of the thesis is not to suggest an 'answer' to the 'mystery' of Great Zimbabwe, but to offer possibilities and to recognise that this is merely one approach in a very complex, interactive and dynamic research field. In any qualitative study area, research should lead to still further research and should not be considered to be leading to the 'answer' to a 'problem'. Therefore, this study explores a wide range of disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, religion, history and archaeology in order to broaden and deepen the study. Architecture is neither a science nor an art but sits comfortably between the two domains. It is therefore an interactive discipline and is marked by a divergent flow of creativity. Rather than taking a convergent approach, which is marked by a structuralist need to solve problems, this study approaches research in a divergent way, where the grappling with the 'problem' itself is seen as a process leading to discovery and possibility rather than to an 'answer'. The study therefore does not examine Karanga mythology as a way to answer the 'mystery' of the stone ruins, nor to provide proof or evidence for an archaeological hypothesis. It is rather a study towards examining ways in which mythology and ritual can be used to broaden and deepen an understanding of symbolism and meaning in architecture. A method of inquiry which validates the diversity of views and documentation in this field of study is validated by this dissertation and is seen as a valuable way of approaching the history of architecture in Southern Africa at this particular time, where African society is itself undergoing transformation as it reinterprets its past in a 'de-eolonised' African context. For that reason, interpreting Great Zimbabwe based on local ethnography is seen as a valuable way offurther validating African creativity and local origin. We can no longer afford to view history one-dimensionally. We need to learn to accept different grounds and more than one belief system. Examining Karanga mythology and ritual is considered in this study as a new way of seeing and interpreting historical artifact in order to expose the creative domain of discovery. This approach is relevant to the paradigmatic shifts being made in Southern Africa and globally, where society is discovering new ways of seeing itself and concentrating more on its processes than on its products. Society is becoming more tolerant of other perspectives and we need to consider how we can learn more about our society both past and present within the context of so many changing paradigms. The results of the proposed investigations for this study as outlined above are documented summatively in Part 5, Chapter 9 and generally in the Conclusion at the end of the study.Thesis (M.Arch.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2000.
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"Mythic reconstruction a study of Australian Aboriginal and South African literatures /." Click here for electronic access to document: http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070928.143608, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070928.143608.
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Cankech, Onencan Apuke. "Examining the Wrongs Against the Present African Women: An Enquiry on Black Women’s Roles and Contributions from Antiquity - A Black African Male Scholarly Comparative Perspective." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/24546.
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The thesis examined the roles and contributions of Black women during the African ancient civilization by analyzing the lives, roles and contributions of Queen Hatshepsut and Nefertiti as case studies and interrogates how Black women positioned themselves as political, military and spiritual leaders during the age of antiquity. The argument is that African women were more involved as leaders in the affairs of their communities as compared to the contemporary times. By using African centered paradigms, Afrocentricity and juxtaposing robust anti-colonial and Black feminist thoughts, the thesis investigates and recreates systematic narratives of the past roles of African women at the very height of African civilization, discussed the changes in sex-gender roles and explained why contemporary women continue to experience difficulties in assessing position of leadership and resources. The study reproduces measured facts to confront the blurred roles and contributions of African women and situates it at the centre of education.
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Gironi, Claudia. "The two Mauretaniae : their romanization and the imperial cult." Diss., 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16850.
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The 'Romanization' of the African provinces of Mauretania Tingitana and
Mauretania Caesariensis was in fact a two-way process of exchange between
Roman and African elements which resulted in a uniquely Romano-African
civilization. The imperial cult highlights issues common to all Romanization
processes, such as ruler-subject interaction and the role of local initiative
in bringing about change, as well as unique issues such as the impact of
politics on emperor-worship. The success of the imperial cult was hampered
by the fact that only a select few - notably the wealthy local elite -
derived direct benefit from the process, and by the fact that, because the
pre-Roman Mauretaniae had no established ruler-cults, the imperial cult
failed to assimilate with local tradition. As a result, the cult was unable
either to make a decisive impact on the Romanization of the Mauretanians, or
to achieve any real religious unity among them.History
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Groenewald, Liesbeth Hendrika. "Bushman imagery and its impact on the visual constructs of Pippa skotnes." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2646.
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This dissertation explores the impact of Bushman images, and the writings of Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek (working with the Breakwater Bushmen) on three art works of Pippa Skotnes. They are The Return III (1988), For //Kunn (1993) and Heaven’s Things (1999). It is argued that Bushman imagery, being the result of shamanic trance activities is characterised by imagery, which mammals universally share. The use of the same imagery by the Surrealists in the twentieth century arises not from an intimate interaction with the spirit realm/dream world but from the European longing for an altered reality. Skotnes appropriates Bushman imagery in her prints, narrating the tragic fate of the Bushman. She laments the loss of the transcendental relationship between Man and the Universe. The exploitation, adoption and marketing of Bushman imagery by the tourist industry marks the distinction between her respectful treatment and the materialism of South Africans.Visual Arts
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Mokgoatsana, Sekgothe Ngwato Cedric. "Some aspects of N.S. Puleng's poetry." Diss., 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17482.
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The study vacillates between the text, the reader and the author. Examining
biography and such socio-cultural factors as marriage and cosmology, the
reader is equipped with sufficient background which illuminates the ideology
behind the text.
The cosmological conceptions of the Northern Sotho shed some light on the
poet's views on the child's first cry. These assumptions lay a foundation for
the religious views expressed in his texts. The contradictions between
African religion and Christianity help us comprehend the frustrations of
secular and religious lives in our country. These also serve as linchpins
towards understanding the pursuit of religious pluralism.
The concept 'intertextuality' is explored. Cases of intratextuality and
intertextuality which dispute the absolutist view in meaning composition
highlight the interrelatedness of texts and how each relationship impacts on
meaning.African Languages
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Langerman, Jorike. "Diek Grobler : an artists monograph with interactive catalogue." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5138.
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This is a monograph on the South African artist Diek Grobler. The aim is to
contextualise the artist‟s oeuvre up to 2009 and to explore the visual
metaphors in his art.
Grobler has a fascination for stories. He blends tales of traditional Western
mythology, African mythology, Christian religion, folklore and magical
realism into narrative artworks. Through visual metaphors the artist
comments on the everyday human dramas that surround him – be they
political, social, psychological or cultural. Furthermore, he adds an element
of surprise to his sketches of human drama, by infusing them with irony
and humour.
My research reflects the diverse nature of Grobler‟s oeuvre as it
investigates works from various artistic genres such as painting, sculpture,
illustration, performance art, avant-garde theatre and animation. It also
examines a blend of different artistic media such as ceramics, oil paint,
gouache, pastels, scraperboard, earthenware, 2D computer animation,
puppetry, and stop-motion animation.Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology
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Sherman, Louisa Elizabeth. "Unmasking the heroes : sources of power in Afrikaner mythologising." Diss., 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16023.
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Unmasking the heroes: sources of power in Afrikaner mythologising is a personal, visual and theoretical exploration of the underlying
sources of power which governed the development of Afrikaner nationalism, particularly the years spanning the late 1980s and the
early 1990s. The practical work, a series of drawings and relief cut-outs, sets out to unmask the beliefs, customs, traditions and
attitudes particular to Afrikaner culture. It does so through the processes of deconstruction and reconstruction of selected mass
mediated images whereby different symbolic paradigms are juxtaposed through the devices of collage and allegory to uncover layers
of meaning. This art-making approach was informed by theoretical and visual research into the tradition of Western mythology,
including related topics such as linguistics, psychology and sociology, Afrikaner history and historiography, and the mechanisms of
contemporary cultural reproduction, particularly the South African mass media and fine arts.History of Art and Fine Arts
M.A. (History of Art and Fine Arts)