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African Oral Literature: Functions in Contemporary Contexts
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Product Description
Throughout Africa, oral literature is flourishing, though it is perceived by some as anachronistic to the modern world. This work refutes this idea in its entirety by presenting 22 chapters, which firmly place the study of oral literature within contemporary African existence. The study analyzes how oral literature relates to media, music, technology, text, gender, religion, power, politics and globalization.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #4005616 in Books
- Published on: 2002-04-01
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 324 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"...there are many new ways beckoning for the future. The study of African oral literature is now a sphere which as well as rightly continuing to draw from comparative studies also brings its own profound insights and widening of the imagination. What after all could be of more relevance for the modern world than a greater appreciation and well-based curiosity for the workings of human art and expression? The book you have before you fulfils that objective." Professor Ruth Finnegan (The Open University, Milton Keynes)
