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Author : Titus Odunlade Abodunde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Narrative Art of Two Yoruba Raconteurs written by Titus Odunlade Abodunde and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip M. Peek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135948739
Total Pages : 1256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book African Folklore written by Philip M. Peek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Author : Deirdre Ann LaPin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Picture and Design in Yoruba Narrative Art written by Deirdre Ann LaPin and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yemi D. Prince
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622733533
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Yoruba Philosophy and the Seeds of Enlightenment written by Yemi D. Prince and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For upwards of 25 years, Yemi D. Prince (also known as Yemi D. Ogunyemi) has systematically devoted himself to the education, research and reason of Creative Writing and from Creative Writing to Creative Thinking and from Creative Thinking to Yoruba narrative, cultural, folk philosophy. On realizing that Creative Thinking has become his area of focus and interest, he succeeds in cultivating big ideas, combining them with his life-long experiences in the Humanities, transforming them into new ways of writing, thinking or reasoning. (Some of his big ideas have led to the publication of booklets such as Yoruba Idealism, We Should All Be Philosophers, The Artist-Philosophers in Yoruba land, Codes of Morality and Pursuit of Wisdom.) Thus his big ideas have helped him separate Yoruba folk philosophy from Yoruba autochthonous religion. With his love for big ideas, born out of Creative Thinking and Critical Thinking, he has been able to put a new face on Yoruba Philosophy.
Author : Ato Quayson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253211484
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing written by Ato Quayson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . a sophisticated and thoughtful study." —Leeds African Studies Bulletin "A very impressive work . . . in the concreteness of its research documentation as well as in its theoretical scope, this study brings a truly innovative dimension to African literary scholarship, and indeed to the whole field of African studies." —Abiola Irele, Ohio State University "The discussion reveals a combination of formidable analytical and critical strength with a refreshingly open-minded and sensible approach to his field." —Karin Barber, University of Birmingham
Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1906924708
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Oral Literature in Africa written by Ruth Finnegan and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.
Author : Amos Tutuola
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Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Palm-wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-wine Tapster in the Dead's Town written by Amos Tutuola and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic novel tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm-wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings - among them the complete gentleman who returns his body parts to their owners and the insatiable hungry-creature. Mixing Yoruba folktales with what T. S. Eliot described as a 'creepy crawly imagination', "The Palm-Wine Drinkard" is regarded as the seminal work of African literature.
Author : Joel Chandler Harris
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Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Uncle Remus written by Joel Chandler Harris and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yemi Ogunyemi
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781433189753
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Yoruba Idealism written by Yemi Ogunyemi and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoruba Idealism questions, debates, and redefines the assumed epistemology in Yoruba Idealism. It is a work in two parts. This book is the first of its kind, and an important new addition to the series Africa in the Global Space.
Author : Bernth Lindfors
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Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Folklore in Nigerian Literature written by Bernth Lindfors and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oladele Olusanya
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984543016
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Gods and Heroes written by Oladele Olusanya and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gods and Heroes is the first volume of the Itan—Legends of the Golden Age trilogy about the thousand-year story of the Yoruba people. It starts with the establishment of Ile-Ife by Oduduwa and the great sacrifice of the heroine Moremi. The ancient gods of Yorubaland, Obatala, Orunmila, Ogun, and Olokun all play their part, as well as the great heroes and heroines of antiquity—Oranmiyan, Sango, Oya, Oba Esigie of Benin, and Obanta of Ijebuland. The author uses the genre of the historical novel in a refreshing and imaginative fashion to present the whole tableau of Yoruba history. The result is a vast and rich panorama enlivened with traditional myths and legends seen through the eyes of a single Yoruba family and the Old Woman, the fabled storyteller.
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Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Yale French Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Traditional and Contemporary African Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert J. Adams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Raconteur and Repertoire written by Robert J. Adams and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernth Lindfors
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004483721
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Comparative Approaches to African Literatures written by Bernth Lindfors and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the essays in this book - notably those concerned with examining Western influences on sub-Saharan African writings (tracing Shakespearean and Brechtian echoes in Nigerian drama, for instance, or following the footprints of Sherlock Holmes in Swahili detective fiction) - fit the traditional definition of comparative literature. These are essays that cross national literary boundaries and sometimes transcend language barriers as well. They look for correspondences in related literary phenomena from widely dispersed areas of the globe, bringing together what is akin from what is akimbo. But most of the essays included here involve closer comparisons. Two focus on works produced in different languages within the same African nation (Yoruba and English in Nigeria, Afrikaans and English in South Africa), and one presents a taxonomy of dominant literary forms in English in three East African nations. Others concentrate on the oeuvre of a single author, and on the likely future output of exiled writers who soon will be returning home. One essay contrasts discursive tendencies within the same text, and another investigates conflicting African and Western religious beliefs. A great variety of comparative methodologies is deployed here; not all of these are transnational, multilingual or pluralistic in scope. The last two groups of essays deal with matters of characterization and authorial reputation. Studies of the depiction of African Americans, politicians and women in a wide range of African literary texts are followed by an assessment of the current standing of anglophone Africa's leading authors. In entering such highly contested terrain, the comparatist approach adopted has been that of the neutral witness to early African attempts - comparatist in their own way - to define an African canon of classic texts. Authors discussed include: Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana); Chinua Achebe, John Pepper Clark, Cyprian Ekwensi, D.O. Fagunwa, Wole Soyinka and Amos Tutuola (Nigeria); Peter Abrahams, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Alex La Guma, Thomas Mofolo, Es'kia Mphahlele and Karel Schoeman (South Africa).
Author : Mike Kelley
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262611985
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Minor Histories written by Mike Kelley and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-02-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of writings by Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley, focusing on his own work. What John C. Welchman calls the "blazing network of focused conflations" from which Mike Kelley's styles are generated is on display in all its diversity in this second volume of the artist's writings. The first volume, Foul Perfection, contained thematic essays and writings about other artists; this collection concentrates on Kelley's own work, ranging from texts in "voices" that grew out of scripts for performance pieces to expository critical and autobiographical writings.Minor Histories organizes Kelley's writings into five sections. "Statements" consists of twenty pieces produced between 1984 and 2002 (most of which were written to accompany exhibitions), including "Ajax," which draws on Homer, Colgate- Palmolive, and Longinus to present its eponymous hero; "Some Aesthetic High Points," an exercise in autobiography that counters the standard artist bio included in catalogs and press releases; and a sequence of "creative writings" that use mass cultural tropes in concert with high art mannerisms—approximating in prose the visual styles that characterize Kelley's artwork. "Video Statements and Proposals" are introductions to videos made by Kelley and other artists, including Paul McCarthy and Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose. "Image-Texts" offers writings that accompany or are part of artworks and installations. This section includes "A Stopgap Measure," Kelley's zestful millennial essay in social satire, and "Meet John Doe," a collage of appropriated texts. "Architecture" features an discussion of Kelley's Educational Complex (1995) and an interview in which he reflects on the role of architecture in his work. Finally, "Ufology" considers the aesthetics and sexuality of space as manifested by UFO sightings and abduction scenarios.
Author : Noelle Watson
Publisher : Saint James Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558620360
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Novelists written by Noelle Watson and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains entries for each author with a biography, a list of separately published books, and an essay.
