| Description |
1 online resource (xlii, 567 pages :) : illustrations. |
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| Series |
World Oral Literature |
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World Oral Literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The "oral" nature of African unwritten literature -- The perception of African oral literature -- The social, linguistic, and literary background -- Poetry and patronage -- Panegyric -- Elegiac poetry -- Religious poetry -- Special purpose poetry : war, hunting, and work -- Lyric -- Topical and political songs -- Children's songs and rhymes -- Prose narratives I : problems and theories -- Prose narratives II : content and form -- Proverbs -- Riddles -- Oratory, formal speaking, and other stylized forms -- Drum language and literature -- Drama. |
| Summary |
"This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images, and an updated bibliography, as well as original chapters on poetry, prose, 'drum language' and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa."--Back cover. |
| Note |
© 2012 Ruth Finnegan, Foreword © 2012 Mark Turin. |
| Subject |
Folk literature.
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Folk literature, African -- History and criticism.
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Oral tradition -- Africa.
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African literature -- Orally transmitted literature -- to 1969 -- Critical studies.
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Post-colonial literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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DRAMA -- African.
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Folk literature. (OCoLC)fst00928888
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Folk literature, African. (OCoLC)fst00928902
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Oral tradition. (OCoLC)fst01047117
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Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Finnegan, Ruth H. Oral Literature in Africa. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2012 9781906924713 9781906924706 |
| ISBN |
9781906924720 (e-book) |
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1906924724 (e-book) |
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