Africa's unwritten literatures

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Lulu.com, 25 Αυγ 2014 - 722 σελίδες
The latest edition of the acclaimed classic on an increasingly important continent
 

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The perception of African oral literature
25
The social linguistic and literary background
64
POETRY
83
Variations in the poets position Court poets Religious patronage
113
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Africa's Unwritten Literatures
Ruth Finnegan,Ruth Finnegan Fba
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actual African oral literature Akan allusive animal appear areas artistic aspect associated audience Azande balwo Bantu languages Bascom cattle characteristic chief chorus collections common context culture dance dirges discussion divination Dogon Doke dramatic drum elaborate elephant Eshu example expression fact formal frequent Fulani functions further genres Hausa hunter hunting Ibibio ideophones individual instance involved Junod Kikuyu kill kind king language Limba linguistic literary military mother myths narratives narrator Nguni Nketia non-literate Nyanja occasions Ogun oral literature particularly performance phrases play poetic poets political popular praise names praise poems praise poetry prose proverbs recited references religious rhythm riddles Rwanda seems significance singer singing Smith and Dale social society sometimes songs Sotho Southern Bantu speech stories style sung Swahili themes Thonga tone Tracey traditional various verbal verse West Africa words written Xhosa Yoruba Zulu

Σχετικά με τον συγγραφέα (2014)

Ruth Finnegan is Emeritus and Research Professor at the Open University, UK. Born in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1933, she studied classics at Oxford, followed by social anthropology, then fieldwork and university teaching in Africa. In 1969 she joined the Open University. Her books include "Oral Literature in Africa" (1970/2012), "Oral Poetry "(1977/1992), "Literacy and Orality" (1988), The Hidden Musicians" (1989/2007), "Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts" (1992), "South Pacific Oral Traditions" (joint ed., 1995), "Communicating" (2002/2014) and "The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa" (2007).

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ΤίτλοςAfrica's unwritten literatures
ΣυγγραφέαςRuth Finnegan
Έκδοσηεικονογραφημένη
ΕκδότηςLulu.com, 2014
ISBN1291990593, 9781291990591
Μέγεθος722 σελίδες
  
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