The oral and beyond doing things with words in Africa.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford James Currey 2007Description: XIII, 258 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0-226-24971-9
  • 0-226-24972-7
  • 978-0-226-24971-1
  • 978-0-226-24972-8
  • 978-1-84701-000-1
  • 978-1-84701-001-8
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introducing words -- The reflective practice of speech and language : a West African example -- How to do things with words among the Limba -- The arts and action of Limba story-telling -- Stories of Africa, stories about Africa -- Literature as oral, the oral as literature -- Is oral literature composed in performance? -- Time, performance and literature -- Constructing 'oral literature in Africa' : hindsights a generation later -- Creating texts : transformation and enscription -- Conceptualising oral texts and beyond -- Words, the human attribute?
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book Library of Ethnosociology & Ethnohistory 117.269 ASE Available 3204532-10

Bibliogr., index

Introducing words -- The reflective practice of speech and language : a West African example -- How to do things with words among the Limba -- The arts and action of Limba story-telling -- Stories of Africa, stories about Africa -- Literature as oral, the oral as literature -- Is oral literature composed in performance? -- Time, performance and literature -- Constructing 'oral literature in Africa' : hindsights a generation later -- Creating texts : transformation and enscription -- Conceptualising oral texts and beyond -- Words, the human attribute?