Adetayo Alabi

Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories

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Produktbeschreibung

Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories discusses the oral life stories and poems that Africans, particularly the Yoruba people, have told about the self and community over hundreds of years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780367721664
• ISBN-10: 036772166X
• Artikelnr.: 62232600

Autorenporträt

Adetayo Alabi teaches African and other world literatures and cultures at the University of Mississippi, USA

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Place of Orí (Head) and Some Foundational Texts on
Oríkì 3. Oríkì Praise Tradition in Yoruba Music 4. Niyi Osundare, Oríkì,
and the Oral Auto/biographical Form 5. "I of the Valiant Stock": Yoruba
Bridal Chant and the Auto/biographical Genre 6. "I am the hunter who kills
elephants and baboons": The Auto/biographical Component of the Hunters'
Chant 7. When Witches and Wizards Are Narrators: Oral Auto/biography,
Magical Realism, and Memory 8. The Auto/biographical Images of Africa in
Udje and Tanure Ojaide's Poetry 9. On Seeing Africa for the First Time:
Orality, Panegyric, Memory, and the Diaspora in Isidore Okpewho's Call Me
By My Rightful Name 10. It Was Oríkì for You: Contemporary Reincarnations
of Oral Life Story Genre in the Academy