This study of oral tradition in African literature is borne from the awareness that African verbal arts still survive in works of discerning writers and in the conscious exploration of its tropes, perspectives, philosophy and consciousness, its complementary realism, and ontology, for the delineation of authentic African response to memory, history and other possible comparisons with modern existence such as witnessed in recent developments of the African novel. In this series we have strived to adopt innovative and multilayered perspectives on orality or indigeneity and its manifestations on contemporary African and new literatures. These studies use multi-faceted theories of orality which discuss and deconstruct notions of history, truth-...
There is a view that the African verbal genre is not literature and its nature does not include bodi...
Being interested in African literature one seems to swim from the very beginning in a terminological...
This paper surveys the significant contributions that African oral literature has made as a tool for...
The contention in this article is that African oral tradition should be reexamined in view of its pe...
This edition commits to the depths of black identities in modern black texts. The cultural reclamati...
African oral literature, like other forms of popular culture, is not merely folksy, domestic enterta...
This paper examines the origin, evolution and emergence of folklore (oral literature) as an academic...
The presence of elements of oral literature in African creative writing as recurrent motives, exempl...
The aim of this dissertation is to question the concept of orality as the natural expression of ance...
but literary in its form. The book adopts tales from African cultural background. This article estab...
but literary in its form. The book adopts tales from African cultural background. This article estab...
African oral literature remains a veritable source of material for African literary drama through va...
Ruth Finneganâ s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been wid...
With new integrative and indigenous approaches to literary affairs the focus of this volume is on th...
African Literature, especially, African poetry has been passing through a transitional period, tryin...
There is a view that the African verbal genre is not literature and its nature does not include bodi...
Being interested in African literature one seems to swim from the very beginning in a terminological...
This paper surveys the significant contributions that African oral literature has made as a tool for...
The contention in this article is that African oral tradition should be reexamined in view of its pe...
This edition commits to the depths of black identities in modern black texts. The cultural reclamati...
African oral literature, like other forms of popular culture, is not merely folksy, domestic enterta...
This paper examines the origin, evolution and emergence of folklore (oral literature) as an academic...
The presence of elements of oral literature in African creative writing as recurrent motives, exempl...
The aim of this dissertation is to question the concept of orality as the natural expression of ance...
but literary in its form. The book adopts tales from African cultural background. This article estab...
but literary in its form. The book adopts tales from African cultural background. This article estab...
African oral literature remains a veritable source of material for African literary drama through va...
Ruth Finneganâ s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been wid...
With new integrative and indigenous approaches to literary affairs the focus of this volume is on th...
African Literature, especially, African poetry has been passing through a transitional period, tryin...
There is a view that the African verbal genre is not literature and its nature does not include bodi...
Being interested in African literature one seems to swim from the very beginning in a terminological...
This paper surveys the significant contributions that African oral literature has made as a tool for...