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Oral literature & performance in southern Africa
- Title
- Oral literature & performance in southern Africa / edited by Duncan Brown.
- Publication
- Oxford : James Currey ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 1999.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Brown, Duncan, 1964-
- Description
- x, 243 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Drawing together contributions from literary studies, anthropology, ethno-musicology and African language studies the book analyses the complex functioning of oral texts and models in differing contexts. It examines the continuing role of orality in modern society, the adaptation of oral models to printed forms, and the ability of oral forms to 'talk back' to the technology of print."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Studies in African literature
- Uniform Title
- Studies in African literature
- Alternative Title
- Oral literature and performance in southern Africa
- Subject
- Folk literature > History and criticism
- Literature and folklore > South Africa
- Oral tradition > South Africa
- Oral tradition > Africa, Southern
- Folk literature
- Literature and folklore
- Oral tradition
- Mündliche Literatur
- Performance Künste
- Mondelinge literatuur
- Volkscultuur
- Folk literature > South Africa > History and criticism
- Folk literature > Africa, Southern > History and criticism
- Littérature et folklore > Afrique du Sud
- Littérature populaire > Afrique australe > Histoire et critique
- Littérature populaire > Afrique du Sud > Histoire et critique
- Tradition orale > Afrique australe
- Tradition orale > Afrique du Sud
- Southern Africa
- South Africa
- Südafrika <Staat>
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Making symmetrical knowledge possible: recent trends in the field of southern African oral performance studies / Isabel Hofmeyr -- Obscurity and exegesis in African oral praise poetry / Karin Barber -- Remaking the warrior?: the role of orality in the liberation struggle and in post-apartheid South Africa / Liz Gunner -- (Dis)locating selves: Izibongo and narrative autobiography in South Africa / Judith Lütge Coullie -- The image of the book in Xhosa oral poetry / Jeff Opland -- Orality and modernity in autobiographical representation: the case of Naboth Mokgatle's life story / Thengani H. Ngwenya -- Mandela, Africanism and modernity: a consideration of Long walk to freedom / Michael Chapman -- Orality, literacy and the archive in the making of Kas Maine / Keith Breckenridge -- The emergence of the South African oral-style short story: A.W. Drayson's Tales at the outspan / Craig Mackenzie -- "Different people just have different minds": a personal attempt to understand Ju/'hoan story telling aesthetics / Megan Biesele -- Sister, spouse, lazy woman: commentaries on domestic predicaments by Kiba performers from the Northern Province / Deborah James -- Orality and Christianity: the hymns of Isaiah Shembe & the Church of the Nazarites / Duncan Brown -- Chakide, the teller of secrets: space, song and story in Zulu Maskanda performance / Carol Muller.
- ISBN
- 0852555547
- 9780852555545
- 0852555598
- 9780852555590
- 0864863950
- 9780864863959
- 0821413082
- 9780821413081
- 0821413090
- 9780821413098
- LCCN
- 99016622
- OCLC
- ocm41018421
- 41018421
- SCSB-1129284
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library