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Author |
: Austin Bukenya |
Publisher |
: University of Nairobi Press |
Total Pages |
: 124 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105021483750 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Oral Literature by : Austin Bukenya
This latest contribution of the Kenya Oral Literature Association to explorations in oral literature is multi-disciplinary in approach. It includes a wide-ranging selection of papers from twelve Kenyan literary scholars, linguists, educationists, material culture specialists, and historians. The central questions addressed are why oral literature should be taught, what should be included, and how it should be taught. Amongst the topics covered are translation problems, understanding proverbs, oral narrative as discourse, the use of audio visual aids in teaching, general and the politics of control, images of women in African oral literature, the relationship with material culture, and oral literature as part of oral traditions.
Author |
: Mark Turin |
Publisher |
: Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781909254305 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1909254304 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oral Literature in the Digital Age by : Mark Turin
Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widening pool of global users. When new publics consume, manipulate and connect with field recordings and digital cultural archives, their involvement raises important practical and ethical questions. This volume explores the political repercussions of studying marginalised languages; the role of online tools in ensuring responsible access to sensitive cultural materials; and ways of ensuring that when digital documents are created, they are not fossilised as a consequence of being archived. Fieldwork reports by linguists and anthropologists in three continents provide concrete examples of overcoming barriers -- ethical, practical and conceptual -- in digital documentation projects. Oral Literature In The Digital Age is an essential guide and handbook for ethnographers, field linguists, community activists, curators, archivists, librarians, and all who connect with indigenous communities in order to document and preserve oral traditions.
Author |
: Ruth Finnegan |
Publisher |
: Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 614 |
Release |
: 2012-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781906924706 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1906924708 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oral Literature in Africa by : Ruth Finnegan
Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. 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 its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.
Author |
: Austin Bukenya |
Publisher |
: University of Nairobi Press |
Total Pages |
: 118 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000048080612 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Oral Literature by : Austin Bukenya
This latest contribution of the Kenya Oral Literature Association to explorations in oral literature is multi-disciplinary in approach. It includes a wide-ranging selection of papers from twelve Kenyan literary scholars, linguists, educationists, material culture specialists, and historians. The central questions addressed are why oral literature should be taught, what should be included, and how it should be taught. Amongst the topics covered are translation problems, understanding proverbs, oral narrative as discourse, the use of audio visual aids in teaching, general and the politics of control, images of women in African oral literature, the relationship with material culture, and oral literature as part of oral traditions.
Author |
: John Miles Foley |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0252070828 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780252070822 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Read an Oral Poem by : John Miles Foley
Drawing on many examples including an American slam poet, a Tibetan paper-singer, a South African praise-poet, and an ancient Greek bard (Homer) the author shows that although oral poetry predates writing it continues to be a vital culture-making and communications tool. Based on research on epics, folktales, lyrics, laments, charms, etc.--Back cover.
Author |
: Peter Wasamba |
Publisher |
: African Books Collective |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2015-10-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789966792518 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9966792511 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemporary Oral Literature Fieldwork by : Peter Wasamba
Contemporary Oral Literature Fieldwork is based on rich research experience dating back to the 1990s. The book is written against the backdrop of Africas confusion with regard to the place of oral literature in the face of the rest of the world, where oral literature exists in conjunction with new literary forms. Wasamba argues that the oral and the written literatures are complementary literary forms. Throughout the work, the author underscores the universal dimension of oral literature as he demonstrates its particular attributes.
Author |
: Simon Okumba Miruka |
Publisher |
: East African Educ. Publ. |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000044750739 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Encounter with Oral Literature by : Simon Okumba Miruka
The author has undertaken extensive research in oral literature and is the author of A Dictionary of Oral Literature. Here he uses an anthological approach to examine the various genres of oral literature both at the theoretical and analytical level. The anthology emphasises the areas of definition, classification, style and themes. The book is essentially an analysis of the four genres of riddles, proverbs, oral poetry and narratives. It introduces a new way of looking at oral literature, particularly in the case of riddles and proverbs which have received little analytical attention locally in terms of classifying them and discussing their styles and social functions. The author contends that the four genres exist in a continuum rather than as disparate phenomena.
Author |
: Ruth H. Finnegan |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226249727 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226249728 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oral and Beyond by : Ruth H. Finnegan
Ruth Finnegan examines the verbal arts in Africa and looks at whether the image of Africa as the 'oral' continent stands up to a more comparative and critical approach to 'orality' and performance.
Author |
: Eric Alfred Havelock |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 158 |
Release |
: 1986-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300043821 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300043822 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Muse Learns to Write by : Eric Alfred Havelock
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Author |
: Masheti Masinjila |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 120 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000044453839 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Teaching Oral Literature by : Masheti Masinjila