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\"\"Congratulations to Professor Nduka Otiono on the publication of Oral Literary Performance in Africa Beyond Text <\/strong>Edited By Nduka Otiono,<\/a> 杏吧原创 University, Canada and Chiji Ak\u1ecdma<\/a>, Villanova University, USA.<\/p>\n

This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance.<\/p>\n

Gathering insights from distinguished scholars in the field, the book provides a range of contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives in the study of oral literature and its transformations in everyday life, fiction, poetry, popular culture, and postcolonial politics. Topics discussed include folklore and folklife; oral performance and masculinities; intermediated orality, modern transformations, and globalisation; orality and mass media; spoken word and imaginative writing. The book also addresses research methodologies and the thematic and theoretical trajectories of scholars of African oral literatures, looking back to the trailblazing legacies of Ruth Finnegan, Harold Scheub, and Isidore Okpewho.<\/p>\n

Ambitious in scope and incisive in its analysis, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African literatures and oral performance as well as to general readers interested in the dynamics of cultural production.<\/p>\n

ISBN 9780367482145
\nPublished June 18, 2021 by Routledge
\n300 Pages 6 B\/W Illustrations<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Oral-Literary-Performance-in-Africa-Beyond-Text\/Otiono-Akoma\/p\/book\/9780367482145<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Professor Nduka Otiono on the publication of Oral Literary Performance in Africa Beyond Text Edited By Nduka Otiono, 杏吧原创 University, Canada and Chiji Ak\u1ecdma, Villanova University, USA. This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance. 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