The Palgrave handbook of African oral traditions and folklore /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors:	Akínyẹmí, Akíntúndé (Editor), Falola, Toyin (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Subjects:	Oral tradition > Africa. Folklore > Africa. Folk literature, African > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction: Perspectives on African Oral Traditions and Folklore
Part I. Contexts and Practicalities
Chapter 2. Creativity and Performance in Oral Poetry
Chapter 3. Concept and Components of Performance
Chapter 4. The Role of the Audience in Oral Performance
Chapter 5. Orality, History, and Historical Reconstruction
Chapter 6. Insights from Festivals and Carnivals
Chapter 7. Fieldwork and Data Collection
Chapter 8. Documenting Oral Genres
Chapter 9. Retrospect and Prospects of Oral Tradition and Folklore
Part II. Themes, Tropes and Types. Chapter 10. Epic Tradition
Chapter 11. Divination and Divinatory Systems
Chapter 12. Myth and Mythology
Chapter 13. The Dirge
Chapter 14. Dreams within the Context of the Basotho Culture
Chapter 15. Drum Language and Literature
Chapter 16. Oratory and Rhetoric: Praise Poetry
Chapter 17. Proverbs, Naming, and other Forms of Veiled Speech
Chapter 18. Oral Poetry: Monyonchos Orature and AbaGusii Culture of Non-violence
Chapter 19. Ifa: A Womanist Deconstruction of Gender Politics
Chapter 20. A Repertoire of Bukusu Nonverbal Communicative System: Some Gender Differences, etc.