Author: Institut culturel africainPublisher: Nouvelles Editions Africaines
ISBN:
Category : African literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 210
Book Description
La tradition orale, source de la littérature contemporaine en Afrique
Author: Institut culturel africainPublisher: Nouvelles Editions Africaines
ISBN:
Category : African literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 210
Book Description
African Literature
Author: Jonathan P. SmithePublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590332900
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
African literature, like the continent itself is enormous and diverse. East Africa's literature is different from West Africa's which is quite different from South Africa's which has different influences on it than North Africa's. Africa's literature is based on a widespread heritage of oral literature, some of which has now been recorded. Arabic influence can be detected as well as European, especially French and English. Legends, myths, proverbs, riddles and folktales form the mother load of the oral literature. This book presents an overview of African literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography, primarily of English language sources. Accessed by subject, author and title indexes.
Collecting and Safeguarding the Oral Traditions
Author: John McIlwainePublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110955431
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.
Odún
Author: Cristina BoscoloPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9042026812
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
A poetic ‘voice’ scans the rhythm of academic research, telling of the encounter with odún; then the voice falls silent. What is then raised is the dust of a forgotten academic debate on the nature of theatre and drama, and the following divergent standpoints of critical discourses bent on empowering their own vision, and defining themselves, rather, as counterdiscourses. This, the first part of the book: a metacritical discourse, on the geopolitics (the inherent power imbalances) of academic writing and its effects on odún, the performances dedicated to the gods, ancestors, and heroes of Yorùbá history. But odún: where is it? and what is it? And the ‘voice’? The many critical discourses have not really answered these questions. In effect, odún is many things. To enable the reader to see these, the study proceeds with an ‘intermezzo’: a frame of reference that sets odún, the festival, in its own historico-cultural ecoenvironment, identifying the strategies that inform the performance and constitute its aesthetic. It is a ‘classical’ yet, for odún, an innovative procedure. This interdisciplinary background equips the reader with the knowledge necessary to watch the performance, to witness its beauty, and to understand the ‘half words’ odún utters. And now the performance can begin. The ‘voice’ emerges one last time, to introduce the second section, which presents two case studies. The reader is led, day by day, through the celebrations –odún edì, Morèmi’s story, and its realization in performance; then confrontation by the masks of the ancestors duing odún egúngún (particularly as held in Ibadan). The meaning of odún becomes clearer and clearer. Odún is poetry, dances, masks, food, prayer. It is play (eré) and belief (ìgbàgbó). It is interaction between the players (both performers and spectators). It is also politics and power. It contains secrets and sacrifices. It is a reality with its own dimension and, above all, as the quintessential site of knowledge, it possesses the power to transform. In short, it is a challenge – a challenge that the present book and its voices take up.
Women's Songs from West Africa
Author: Thomas A. HalePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253010217
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Exploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists. Covering Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and beyond, the essays attest to the importance of women's contributions to the most widespread form of verbal art in Africa.
Pen International
Author: IFLA General Conference
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International librarianship
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Black African Literature in English, 1987-1991
Author: Bernth LindforsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Black African Literature in English, 1987-1991 is the continuation of the 1982-1986 and earlier volumes compiled by Bernth Lindfors, and lists all the important works produced on Anglophone black African literature published between 1987 and 1991. Containing almost 9,000 entries - some of which are annotated to identify the authors discussed - it covers books and periodical articles, as well as providing selective coverage of other relevant sources of informed commentary. Also included are a very substantial number of articles which have appeared in African newspapers and magazines.
The Oral History and Literature of the Wolof People of Waalo, Northern Senegal
Author: Samba DiopPublisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This work (which springs from Senegalese and African oral cultures and traditions, and is the work of an observer and writer from within Wolof culture) provides insights to the fields of oral and comparative literature. The epic tale contained in the manuscript, (The Epic Tale of the Waalo Kingdom) was collected in the town of Rosso-S n gal from the griot S q an (and the performance was recorded on videotape). Notes to the performance text treat various details relating to Wolof culture and history."
Bibliographic Guide to Conference Publications
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Vols. for 1975- include publications cataloged by the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library with additional entries from the Library of Congress MARC tapes.