TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finnegan,Ruth H.
TI  - The oral and beyond: doing things with words in Africa 
SN  - 9780226249711 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - GR350 .F556 2007
U1  - 398.2096 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Oxford, Chicago, Pietermaritzburg
PB  - James Currey, University of Chicago Press, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
KW  - Oral tradition
KW  - Africa
KW  - Folklore
N1  - 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?
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007005768.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0732/2007005768-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2007005768-b.html
ER  -