Zulu Poems
Author: Mazisi Kunene
Publisher: Africana Pub.
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 104
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Author: Mazisi Kunene
Publisher: Africana Pub.
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Noverino N. Canonici
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 51
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ruth Finnegan
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2018-05-16
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 153264504X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic study is an introduction to “oral poetry,” a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan interprets as ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to medieval oral literature, the heroic poems of Homer, and recent epic compositions in Asia or the Pacific. The book employs a broad comparative perspective and considers oral poetry from Africa, Asia, and Oceania as well as Europe and America. The results of Finnegan’s vast research illuminate and suggest fresh conclusions to many current controversies: the nature of oral tradition and oral composition; the notion of a special oral style; possible connection between types of poetry and types of society; the differences between oral and written communication; and the role of poets in non-literate societies. Drawing on insights from anthropology and literary scholarship, Oral Poetry attempts to create a greater appreciation of the literary aspects of this fascinating form of poetry. Finnegan quotes extensively from a wide variety of sources, mainly in translation. The discussion is presented in non-technical language and will be of interest not only to sociologists and social anthropologists, but also to all those interested in comparative literature and in folk poetry from cultures around the world. The re-issue of this text, widely used in folklore, anthropology, and comparative literature courses, comes at an appropriate juncture in interdisciplinary scholarship, which is witnessing the breakdown of traditional disciplinary boundaries and an increase in the comparative study of oral poetry. For this volume Ruth Finnegan has provided a new foreword relating the text to more recent developments.
Author: Ruth Finnegan
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2012-09
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 1906924708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRuth 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: Mazisi Kunene
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 492
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmperor Shaka the Great is an epic poem based on the Zulu oral tradition, compiled in Zulu then translated by South African Poet Mazisi Kunene. The epic follows the life of Shaka Zulu. The poem documents his exploits as a king of the Zulu people, produced considerable advances in State structure and military technologies of the Zulu. Some critics express concern over the historicity of the retelling. However, Kunene's embrasure of an African perspective on Shaka's Rule expresses an attempt at understanding the apparent horrors observed by Europeans in the Shaka's history.
Author: James Stuart
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon P.
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeff Opland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-12-30
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521241137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of the Xhosa oral poetry tradition.
Author: Jack Mapanje
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Russell Kaschula
Publisher: New Africa Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781919876078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout Africa, oral literature is flourishing, though it is perceived by some as anachronistic to the modern world. This work refutes this idea in its entirety by presenting 22 chapters, which firmly place the study of oral literature within contemporary African existence. The study analyzes how oral literature relates to media, music, technology, text, gender, religion, power, politics and globalization.
Author: Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2016-04-19
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 0520293118
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