UID:
almahu_9948674030902882
Format:
XLIX, 1026 p. 145 illus., 66 illus. in color.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2021.
ISBN:
9783030555177
Content:
"This volume is not a displacement of the late 1990s/early 2000s publications on folklore in Africa, in which African functional aesthetics gave way to Western formal aesthetics, but is a definitive source book of 50 original essays which provide a multidisciplinary study of the undercurrents of African and African Diaspora folklore and oral traditions - indeed a tour de force work in the currency and originality of its 'African voice and perspective." - Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith, Professor Emerita, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA "This is a comprehensive, well-researched, and impressive volume that offers significant insights and perspectives into the dynamics of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora. Systematically and thematically arranged with an interdisciplinary approach, the volume is enlightening and riveting. The volume is a must-read for professionals, students, and lovers of culture." - Julius O. Adekunle, Professor of History, Monmouth University, USA This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore - including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy - this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore. Akintunde Akinyemi is Professor and Chair in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida, USA. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Note:
Chapter 1. Introduction: Perspectives on African Oral Traditions and Folklore -- Part I. Contexts and Practicalities -- Chapter 2. Creativity and Performance in Oral Poetry -- Chapter 3. Concept and Components of Performance -- Chapter 4. The Role of the Audience in Oral Performance -- Chapter 5. Orality, History, and Historical Reconstruction -- Chapter 6. Insights from Festivals and Carnivals -- Chapter 7. Fieldwork and Data Collection -- Chapter 8. Documenting Oral Genres -- Chapter 9. Retrospect and Prospects of Oral Tradition and Folklore -- Part II. Themes, Tropes and Types. Chapter 10. Epic Tradition -- Chapter 11. Divination and Divinatory Systems -- Chapter 12. Myth and Mythology -- Chapter 13. The Dirge -- Chapter 14. Dreams within the Context of the Basotho Culture -- Chapter 15. Drum Language and Literature -- Chapter 16. Oratory and Rhetoric: Praise Poetry -- Chapter 17. Proverbs, Naming, and other Forms of Veiled Speech -- Chapter 18. Oral Poetry: Monyoncho's Orature and AbaGusii Culture of Non-violence -- Chapter 19. Ifá: A Womanist Deconstruction of Gender Politics -- Chapter 20. A Repertoire of Bukusu Nonverbal Communicative System: Some Gender Differences, etc.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783030555160
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783030555184
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9783030555191
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55517-7
