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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Orature"”.
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"Phillis Wheatley: Canon and ""Orature"""
"In my last chapter, ""Phillis Wheatley and British Romanticism,"" I giving serious consideration to the poet's place in the Western canon, by attempting to extend John Shields's exploration of her relationship to above literary movement."
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Hymnody of change: A study of classical African orature in a social justice context
… context, as an example of classical African orature. As such, these hymns utilize various aesthetics of nommo, the productive word. These aesthetics are used to move toward maat, realized as communal and spiritual harmony. In order to advance understanding of this process, I introduce binding …
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May I grow to be as strong as my mother: The storytelling tradition of black women in Africa, the Caribbean and the United States
… the storytelling tradition of black women from orature to dramatic literature in three situations: Africa, the Caribbean and the United States. The study provides insights into the nature of black women's contemporary orature; a comparative evaluation of black women's orature and literary …
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Fractious Form: The Trans/Mutable Post-Apartheid Novel
… metaphor. Both writers introduce the device of orature as assertions of African identity. However, Mda counterposes orature against death, injecting through it a humanising principle. In Mpeâs novel, by contrast, orature acquires a murderous agency. I trace variants of what I term …
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Exploring meaning in Xhalanga Blues: a theatre of ntsomi palimpsests encouraging sustainable storytelling
… or ring composition; an opening formula; orature in the form of narrative proverbs; personal metaphors; riddles and songs; analogous explanations; personification; image-repertoire; extensive use of long speeches or monologues and survival construct. The research further explores the …
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Isixhosa interpretations of the Nongqawuse saga: oral narratives and theatrical performances of the Nongqawuse story
… and refreshingly are inspired by Xhosa genres of orature and storytelling, set within a period of great upheaval due to missionary and colonial influences.
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Allegories of drought and of gardens in the novels of J.M. Coetzee and Dambudzo Marechera
… the Shona rungano. Marechera uses Shona orature as a mythic pre-text for the more explicitly allegorical sections of his House of Hunger. Similarly, several of Coetzee's novels allegorise concerns around drought found in novels of settlement in Southern Africa. Both writers work within a …
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Narrative technique and readerships in postcolonial African fiction : towards reception theory
… who seems to draw inspiration from African orature, especially from the "language" of oral performances in order to work out appropriate narrative strategies for readers has insurmountable problems indeed. The study further points out that the attempt to merge aspects of orature with those …
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Oudano as praxis: archives, audiotopias and movements
… music, HipHop, Kwaito, Shambo, documentary film, orature, oral history, protest action, as well as curatorial practice. Given its epistemic potential, Oudano is a generative approach of decolonising our understandings of performance cultures. Through close reading and listening to works of Oudano …
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"New Media, Oral Histories and the Expansion and Modification of West African Griot Culture: A Case Study of Alhaji Papa Susso"
This dissertation takes the approach of a qualitative case study whose primary subject is Alhaji Papa Susso, a distinct and compelling representative of griot culture, who was born in The Gambia, but who now resides in the U.S., yet maintains his griot identity. The findings from this research …