Oral Literary Performance in Africa: Beyond Text

Book Overview

This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance.

Gathering insights from distinguished scholars in the field, the book provides a range of contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives in the study of oral literature and its transformations in everyday life, fiction, poetry, popular culture, and postcolonial politics. Topics discussed include folklore and folklife; oral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367630192
• ISBN13: 9780367630195
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"