Research Catalog

Title

Orality and cultural identities in Zimbabwe / edited by Maurice Taonezvi Vambe.

Publication

Gweru, Zimbabwe : Mambo Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi.

Description

xii, 127 p.; 21 cm.

Subjects

• Zimbabwean literature > History and criticism
• Oral tradition > Zimbabwe
• Folk literature, African
• Performing arts > Zimbabwe
• Oral tradition in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction : orality and cultural identities in Zimbabwe / Maurice Taonezvi Vambe -- The role of orature in the nationalist struggle in Zimbabwe / Samukele Hadebe -- Orality in Shona religious rituals / Kennedy C. Chinyowa -- The effect of oral forms in Ndebele poetry / Bekithemba Sadinukwa Neube -- Unwritten ethics and moral values : the human face of Chimurenga II / Charles Pfukwa -- Towards an alternative theatre in post-independence Zimbabwe / Owen Seda -- "The world has no owner" : popular songs and social realities in Africa / Kimani Gecau -- Images of Black women in popular songs and some poems on AIDS in post-independence Zimbabwe / Maurice T. Vambe and Aquilina Mawadza -- Narrative and ideology : fifty years of film-making in Zimbabwe / Kedmon N. Hungwe -- Imbongi arts production and promotion / Albert Nyathi -- Shona literature of independence in Zimbabwe / Kennedy C. Chinyowa -- Strategic transformations : spirit possession in the Zimbabwean Black novel in English / Maurice T. Vambe -- Representations of Blacks and the city in the Zimbabwean post-independence television drama / Pedzisai Mashiri.

Call Number

Sc D 03-1493

ISBN

0869227645

LCCN

2002345565

OCLC

50810252

Title

Orality and cultural identities in Zimbabwe / edited by Maurice Taonezvi Vambe.

Imprint

Gweru, Zimbabwe : Mambo Press, 2001.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi.

Research Call Number

Sc D 03-1493