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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"African Storytelling"”.
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Preserving the Spirit of African Storytelling in the Pittsburgh Cycle
… and examine how August Wilson incorporated African storytelling ceremonials inside of <em>Gem of the Ocean</em> and Joe Turner’s <em>Come and Gone</em>. By studying the mannerisms and characteristics of Aunt Ester (<em>Gem of the Ocean</em>) and Bynum Walker (Joe Turner’s <em>Come and …
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Trickster-hero and rite of passage: effects of traditionally west African folklore forms on postcolonial Afro-Caribbean literature
<p>This thesis focuses on the implied presence of African storytelling tropes and characters in postcolonial Afro-Caribbean literature. It argues that Afro-Caribbean writers deliberately utilize these tropes in order to separate themselves from a vestigial European cultural presence. The three main …
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Screening interiority : dream, the unconscious, emotion and imagination in cinematic language
… girls' rites of passage. In films that draw on African storytelling, animation is shown to make manifest the imaginative realm. Finally, the adaptation of the screenplay Zinzi and the Boondogle into a novel tests ways in which cinema and literature can divergently - but equally - evoke …
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Hip life music: re-defining Ghanaian culture (1990-2012)
African music is full of life ... we have different ethnic groups, different languages and cultures, moods, shades; it's so dynamic, and we have a message. (Diana Hopeson, p.c. 2006) My research documents the hip life popular music story from 1990 to 2012, from pre-through post-inception, as driven …