Oral Literary Performance in Africa : Beyond Text (Hardcover)

Introduction: A Heritage of African Oral Literary Performance Studies Nduka Otiono and Chiji Ak?ma Part I: Recapturing Tradition: The Oral Performance in Transition Elfrieda Binga’s Berseba: Constructing History and Identity in a Rural Namibian Village Hein Willemse "The Crocodile’s Wife": Content and Communication Strategy in A Tale of Transformations Ernst R. Wendland "The aged, the infirm and the effeminate": Rhetorical Strategies in Election Rally Songs from Nigeria and Lesotho Chris Dunton Orality, Masculinities and Narrative Strategies in The Arabian Nights Nduka Otiono Part II: The Word Made Flesh: Intermediated Orality and Modern Transformations Translation of African Oral Narrative-performances to the Written Word Harold Scheub Asiyefunzwa na Wazazi Hufunzwa na Mzuka: Swahili Supernatural Homiletics in an Age of Promiscuity Aaron Rosenberg History, Mofolo's Chaka, and the Postcolonial "Bastard" Obiwu Globalization of Sango: Wole Soyinka’s Adaptation of Oedipus at Colonus Femi Euba Part III: Orality at Crossroads: Folklife, Modernity, and Globalization African Verbal Arts Online: Intermediality and "Technauriture" Daniela Merolla Writer-Reader Interaction in Newspaper Serial Writing in Tanzania: The Transformation of an Oral Story Telling Mode Uta Reuster-Jahn The Manipulation of Verbal Folklore Genres in Mass Media Communication Rosaleen O. B. Nhlekisana Go Fetisa Lekoalo/Beyond Literature: Orality, Poetry and Music in Post-apartheid Spoken Word Poetry Raphael d’Abdon Part IV: The Scholar as Artist: Isidore Okpewho and African Oral Performance Studies Isidore Okpewho: An Intellectual Portrait Abiola Irele In Praise of Counter-Hegemony: Okpewho and the Other Alternative Discourse in African Oral Literature James Tar Tsaaior Isidore Okpewho: Scholarship, Imaginative Writing, and the Assertion of the African Sensibility J.O.J. Nwachukwu-Agbada Choosing Two Sides Equally: An Interview with Isidore Okpewho Chiji Ak?ma