The oral and beyond : doing things with words in Africa /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford : Chicago : Pietermaritzburg :
James Currey ; University of Chicago Press ; University of KwaZulu-Natal Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- Introducing words
- The reflective practice of speech and language : a West African example
- How to do things with words among the Limba
- The arts and action of Limba story-telling
- Stories of Africa, stories about Africa
- Literature as oral, the oral as literature
- Is oral literature composed in performance?
- Time, performance and literature
- Constructing 'oral literature in Africa' : hindsights a generation later
- Creating texts : transformation and enscription
- Conceptualising oral texts and beyond
- Words, the human attribute?