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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"African oral tradition"”.
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Until lions learn to speak... placing the African oral tradition at the centre of power, knowledge, and media
… of knowledge production, specifically the oral tradition, have largely been undervalued and ignored. As such, what is a vibrant, complex and active tradition of African orality in the pursuit and preservation of knowledge has been relegated to the back rooms of academia and scholars are not …
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"The cockroach and the rooster" : a translation, with preface, of Tchicaya U Tam'si's Les cancrelats
… and symbols, some of which have their origins in African oral tradition and others that are part of U Tam'Si mythical universe. The translation is done in a literal, "foreignizing" manner according to approaches advocated by translation studies theorists such as Antoine Berman and Lawrence Venuti. …
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An analysis of the biblical and expository preaching of Manuel Lee Scott, Sr
… relationship between expository preaching, the African oral tradition and narrative structure, and an assessment of Scott's preaching by using the canons of rhetoric. Chapter 1 provides an investigation of contemporary definitions of biblical and expository preaching, provides a working …
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A comparative study of ideology and aesthetics in the novels of selected South African isiXhosa-language writers and Kenyan African authors in English
… of a comparative methodology for the study of African literature, little scholarly effort has thus far been exerted to establish such a methodology. This study aims to make a small contribution in this direction by elaborating an appropriate comparative method and demonstrating its efficacy by …
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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 …