The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (950 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226249727 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Now, Finnegan has gathered and updated a selection of her best work on oral literature, performance, and the creative use of language in Africa, along with several new essays that broaden and extend her ideas.The Oral and Beyond looks simultaneously backwards and forwards, reviewing and critiquing the achievements of scholarship on African oral literature, revisiting issues of perennial contention, and highlighting some of the most interesting new ideas and approaches in the field. Exploring such fundamental questions as how texts and textuality relate to performance, how ideology inflects language, and how traditional forms adapt to modern media and popular culture, Finnegan essentially crafts an intellectual history of her field. With her 1976 book Oral Literature in Africa, Ruth Finnegan almost single-handedly created t
Five Stars Great and useful book!
"A rich and wide-ranging book, a 'tour-de-force' as one of the enthusiastic readers on the back cover puts it, and the fruit of forty-odd years' experience and continuing openness to new ideas. I believe The Oral and Beyond should become a key text for students in different disciplines, not least because of Ruth Finnegan's ability to synthesise relevant scholarship in a notably easy and jargon-free style and to situate it in time and place."