The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Akinyemi, Akintunde; Falola, Toyin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

"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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 1026
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030555177
• Artikelnr.: 61294434

Autorenporträt

Editors: 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. Partial Listing of Contributors: Julius Adekunle, Monmouth University Simeon Ibigbolade Aderibigbe, University of Georgia at Athens, USA  Chiji Akoma, Villanova University, USA  Adetayo Alabi, University of Mississippi, USA Joyce Ashuntantang, University of Hartford, USA Karin Barber, University of Birmingham, UK Ragi Bashonga, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Robert Cancel, University of California, San Diego, USA Raphael d'Abdon, University of South Africa Ernest N. Emenyonu, University of Michigan-Flint, USA  Olawole Famule, University of Wisconsin at Superior, USA Artisia Green, College of William and Mary, USA Marame Gueye, East Carolina University, USA Lee Haring, Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA Kathryn Jones, Swansea University, UK Kasongo M. Kapanga, University of Richmond, USA Russell H. Kaschula, Rhodes University, South Africa Cécile Leguy, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France Joseph McLaren, Hofstra University, USA Patricia Beatrice Mireku-Gyimah, University of Mines and Technology, Ghana Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler, Western Michigan University, USA Besi Brillian Muhonja, James Madison University, USA Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, North Carolina State University, USA Jacomien van Niekerk, University of Pretoria, South Africa Felicia Ohwovoriole, University of Lagos, Nigeria Rose Opondo, Moi University, Kenya Félix Ayoh'Omidire, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria Gail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy, USA Lesibana Rafapa, University of South Africa Relfiwe M. Ramagoshi, University of Pretoria, South Africa Angela M. Farr Schiller, Kennesaw State University, USA Enongene Mirabeau Sone, Walter Sisulu University, Cameroon Mobolanle Sotunsa, Babcock University, Nigeria Rémi Armand Tchokothe, University of Bayreuth, Germany Antoinette Tidjani Alaou, Niamey University, Niger Karim Traoré, University of Georgia, USA Hanétha Vété-Congolo, Bowdoin College, USA Hein Willemse, University of Pretoria, South Africa Felicity Wood, University of Fort Hare, South Africa

Inhaltsangabe

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.