Akinyemi / Falola The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-55517-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 1026 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore – including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy – this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Akinyemi, Akintunde

Falola, Toyin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction: Perspectives on African Oral Traditions and Folklore.- Part I. Contexts and Practicalities.- Chapter 2. Creativity and Performance in Oral Poetry.- Chapter 3. Concept and Components of Performance.- Chapter 4. The Role of the Audience in Oral Performance.- Chapter 5. Orality, History, and Historical Reconstruction.- Chapter 6. Insights from Festivals and Carnivals.- Chapter 7. Fieldwork and Data Collection.- Chapter 8. Documenting Oral Genres.- Chapter 9. Retrospect and Prospects of Oral Tradition and Folklore.- Part II. Themes, Tropes and Types. Chapter 10. Epic Tradition.- Chapter 11. Divination and Divinatory Systems.- Chapter 12. Myth and Mythology.- Chapter 13. The Dirge.- Chapter 14. Dreams within the Context of the Basotho Culture.- Chapter 15. Drum Language and Literature.- Chapter 16. Oratory and Rhetoric: Praise Poetry.- Chapter 17. Proverbs, Naming, and other Forms of Veiled Speech.- Chapter 18. Oral Poetry: Monyoncho’s Orature and AbaGusii Culture of Non-violence.- Chapter 19. Ifá: A Womanist Deconstruction of Gender Politics.- Chapter 20. A Repertoire of Bukusu Nonverbal Communicative System: Some Gender Differences, etc.

Über Autor(innen)

Editors:Akintunde Akinyemi is Professor and Chair in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida, USA. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Partial Listing of Contributors: Julius Adekunle, Monmouth University Simeon Ibigbolade Aderibigbe, University of Georgia at Athens, USA Chiji Akoma, Villanova University, USA Adetayo Alabi, University of Mississippi, USAJoyce Ashuntantang, University of Hartford, USAKarin Barber, University of Birmingham, UKRagi Bashonga, Human Sciences Research Council, South AfricaRobert Cancel, University of California, San Diego, USA Raphael d’Abdon, University of South Africa Ernest N. Emenyonu, University of Michigan–Flint, USA Olawole Famule, University of Wisconsin at Superior, USAArtisia Green, College of William and Mary, USAMarame Gueye, East Carolina University, USALee Haring, Brooklyn College, CUNY, USAKathryn Jones, Swansea University, UKKasongo M. Kapanga, University of Richmond, USA Russell H. Kaschula, Rhodes University, South Africa Cécile Leguy, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, FranceJoseph McLaren, Hofstra University, USAPatricia Beatrice Mireku-Gyimah, University of Mines and Technology, GhanaMustafa Kemal Mirzeler, Western Michigan University, USA Besi Brillian Muhonja, James Madison University, USA Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, North Carolina State University, USAJacomien van Niekerk, University of Pretoria, South AfricaFelicia Ohwovoriole, University of Lagos, NigeriaRose Opondo, Moi University, KenyaFélix Ayoh'Omidire, Obafemi Awolowo University, NigeriaGail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy, USALesibana Rafapa, University of South Africa Relfiwe M. Ramagoshi, University of Pretoria, South Africa Angela M. Farr Schiller, Kennesaw State University, USAEnongene Mirabeau Sone, Walter Sisulu University, CameroonMobolanle Sotunsa, Babcock University, NigeriaRémi Armand Tchokothe, University of Bayreuth, GermanyAntoinette Tidjani Alaou, Niamey University, NigerKarim Traoré, University of Georgia, USAHanétha Vété-Congolo, Bowdoin College, USA Hein Willemse, University of Pretoria, South Africa Felicity Wood, University of Fort Hare, South Africa