Oral Literary Performance in Africa - 9780367482145

Taylor & Francis

Oral Literary Performance in AfricaBeyond Text\nAuthor(s): Nduka Otiono, Chiji Ak?ma\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367482145, 978-0367482145\nSynopsis\nThis book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance.\n\nGathering 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.