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The oral and beyond : doing things with words in Africa / Ruth Finnegan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : James Currey ; Chicago : University of Chicago Press ; Pietermaritzburg : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007.Description: xiii, 258 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780226249711 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226249728 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781847010001 (cloth : James Currey)
  • 1847010008 (cloth : James Currey)
  • 9781847010018 (pbk. : James Currey)
  • 1847010016 (pbk. : James Currey)
  • 0226249719 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226249727 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398.2096 22
LOC classification:
  • GR350 .F556 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Introducing words -- The reflective practice of speech and language : a West African example -- How to do things with words among the Limba -- The arts and action of Limba story-telling -- Stories of Africa, stories about Africa -- Literature as oral, the oral as literature -- Is oral literature composed in performance? -- Time, performance and literature -- Constructing 'oral literature in Africa' : hindsights a generation later -- Creating texts : transformation and enscription -- Conceptualising oral texts and beyond -- Words, the human attribute?
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Books Books Main Campus Library University of Eastern Africa, Baraton Main Stack GR 350 .F556 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.3 Available 78377

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-251) and index.

Introducing words -- The reflective practice of speech and language : a West African example -- How to do things with words among the Limba -- The arts and action of Limba story-telling -- Stories of Africa, stories about Africa -- Literature as oral, the oral as literature -- Is oral literature composed in performance? -- Time, performance and literature -- Constructing 'oral literature in Africa' : hindsights a generation later -- Creating texts : transformation and enscription -- Conceptualising oral texts and beyond -- Words, the human attribute?

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