Adélékè Adéèkó

Arts of Being Yoruba (eBook, ePUB)

Divination, Allegory, Tragedy, Proverb, Panegyric

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There is a culturally significant way of being Yorùbá that is expressed through dress, greetings, and celebrations-no matter where in the world they take place. Adélékè Adék documents Yorùbá patterns of behavior and articulates a philosophy of how to be Yorùbá in this innovative study. As he focuses on historical writings, Ifá divination practices, the use of proverbs in contemporary speech, photography, gendered ideas of dressing well, and the formalities of ceremony and speech at celebratory occasions, Adéékó contends that being Yorùbá is indeed an art and Yorùbá-ness is a dynamic phenomenon that responds to cultural shifts as Yorùbá people inhabit an increasingly globalized world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253026729
• Artikelnr.: 49552445

Autorenporträt

Adélékè Adéèk is Humanities Distinguished Professor in the English and African American and African Studies departments at Ohio State University. He is the author of Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature and The Slave's Rebellion: Literature, History, Orature (IUP).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. "Writing" and "Reference" in Ifaì Divination Chants
2. Culture, Meaning, Proverbs
3. Reading, Writing, and Epistemic Instability in Faìguìnwa's Novels
4. Sex, Gender, and Plot in FaìguìnwaÌ's Adventures
5. Lost in Translation: IÌsòoÌòlaì's Eòfuìnsòetaìn AniìwuìraÌ and YoruÌbaì
Woman-Being
6. From Orality to Visuality: Photography and the Panegyric in Contemporary
YoruÌbaì Culture
Conclusion: Book Launching as Cultural Affirmations
Bibliography
Index