Author: Ernst Richard WendlandPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Stylistic Form and Communicative Function in the Nyanja Radio Narratives of Julius Chongo
Author: Ernst Richard WendlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
African Folklore
Author: Philip M. PeekPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135948720
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1509
Book Description
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Gogo Breeze
Author: Harri EnglundPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022649893X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Being Gogo Breeze -- Mass-mediated elderhood -- The grandfather's voices -- Obligations on and off air -- On air: beyond charity -- Off air: private service -- Women and children -- Between feminisms and paternalisms -- Children's voices -- Coda -- Radio obligations -- Appendix A: confronting mill owners -- Appendix B: helping Miriam Nkhoma
Oral Literary Performance in Africa
Author: Nduka OtionoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100039753X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance. Gathering insights from distinguished scholars in the field, the book provides a range of contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives in the study of oral literature and its transformations in everyday life, fiction, poetry, popular culture, and postcolonial politics. Topics discussed include folklore and folklife; oral performance and masculinities; intermediated orality, modern transformations, and globalisation; orality and mass media; spoken word and imaginative writing. The book also addresses research methodologies and the thematic and theoretical trajectories of scholars of African oral literatures, looking back to the trailblazing legacies of Ruth Finnegan, Harold Scheub, and Isidore Okpewho. Ambitious in scope and incisive in its analysis, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African literatures and oral performance as well as to general readers interested in the dynamics of cultural production.
The Significance of Schooling
Author: Robert SerpellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521144698
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This 1933 study explores the difficulties of meeting the multiple agenda of modern schooling in a case study of a rural African community.
Metaphor in Zulu
Author: Eric HermansonPublisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN: 1920109277
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
This study examines metaphor in Zulu in the light of conceptual metaphor theory from the perspective of a Bible translator. It then considers the possibility of translating Biblical Hebrew metaphor into Zulu. Selected Hebrew metaphors in the Book of Amos are analysed according to conceptual metaphor theory and compared with the conceptual metaphor analysis of the corresponding verses in existing Zulu translations, thereby increasing the empirical basis of the theory, and showing that it is valid for the study of both Biblical Hebrew and Zulu and a useful tool for translators.
Research in African Literatures
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Vol. 1- , spring 1970- , include "A Bibliography of American doctoral dissertations on African literature," compiled by Nancy J. Schmidt.
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