African scholars' commitment in the study in
Oral
Traditions is borne from the awareness that African verbal arts still
survive in works of discerning writers, in the conscious exploration
of tropes, perspectives, philosophy and consciousness, its
complementary realism and ontology for the delineation of authentic
African response to memory, history and all possible confrontations with existence such as witnessed in recent analyses of the African
novel.
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Journal of African Literature and Culture No. 6. Charles SMITH (Ed) IRCALC, 2009
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ISBN: 9-789-7836-0353-0 Cover Design: Michael Randall
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Oral Traditions of
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A. WRITERS' FORUM
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Chin Ce |
Happily After: Re-visioning African Writing
Argues, for African writing, new directions
that incorporate truly original perspectives which pride in knowing the past,
interpreting the present and exploring the future from fidelity to African
cultural endowments, rational vigour and sense of positive destiny.
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11-28 |
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ORAL TRADITIONS
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'Dele Bamidele |
Aesthetic Transfer in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall
Apart
A close reading of Achebe's Things Fall Apart showing
the tremendous flow of traffic from oral traditional aesthetics to the
written tradition in modern African fiction.
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31-48 |
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Jen Westmoreland Bouchard |
Portrait of a Contemporary Griot: Orality in the Films
and Novels of Ousmane Semb�ne
This study explores an aspect of profound interest in
Semb�ne's work being the role of the griot in contemporary West African
story telling.
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49-67 |
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Ogaga Okuyade |
Oral Collage and Multidimensional Perspectives in the
Novels of Chin Ce, Phaswane Mpe and Biyi Bandele-Thomas
This paper deeply investigates three African writers
who weave together science fiction and mysticism, history and myth, truth
and fiction, philosophy and literature in the conflicts of mankind and
cosmos.
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69-104 |
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M�doune Gu�ye |
African Mythic Context and Postmodern Philosophy in
Aminata Sow Fall's Le Jujubier du patriarche
The essay shows how Fall�s work transposes one genre,
which is tied to the African oral tradition, into another which emerges from
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105-120 |
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Oluwole Coker and Adesina Coker |
Indigenous Legal Regimes in Chinua Achebe's Things
Fall Apart and Arrow of God
An attempt to locate the two novels of the Nigerian
writer within a new constituency of indigenous epistemology as it relates to
law and the administration of justice in the universe of the novels.
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121-136 |
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PERSPECTIVE
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Ngozi O. Iloh |
Trajectoire des Ndoumbas dans les Romans D�Henri
Lopes
This paper examines Lopes� portraiture of free,
liberated and sophisticated African womanhood through the trajectories of
ndoumba women in his novel.
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139-174 |
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Jonathan Fitzgerald |
New Kenyan Writers: The Narratives of Binyavanga
Wainaina and Yvonne Owuor
This presentation showcases the work of two Kenyans
who write with clarity of purpose learned from studying their forbears, as
well as an audacity that comes from an understanding of their unique place
in the world.
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