The oral and beyond: doing things with words in Africa
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Oxford
Currey [u.a.]
2007
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
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| Links: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007005768.html http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=015715519&sequence=000004&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| Umfang: | XIII, 258 S. |
| ISBN: | 9781847010001 9781847010018 9780226249711 9780226249728 0226249719 0226249727 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface xi
J_ Introducing Words 1
Doing things with words 2
Changing arenas 4
A backward forward look 8
I Enacting and Distancing Words
in Life and Story 13
H The Reflective Practice of Speech and Language
A West African Example 15
Limba is one, Limba is many : reflecting on language 16
Language as literature 21
A philosophy of language, speech and action 22
Speech, language and writing 25
H How to Do Things with Words
among the Limba 29
I agree ... : some Limba performative utterances 30
Thanking , greeting and other spoken acts of commitment 35
Speech and action 40
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Contents
A The Arts and Action
^ ofLimba Story telling 43
The poetry of story telling 43
Limba performed arts and the nature of human beings 48
Narrative and performance 51
£ Stories of Africa 57
* Stories about Africa
More on Limba stories 58
Of timeless Africa and modernising west 65
Of being silenced by outsiders 70
Storying and living 72
JLJL Performing Literature 75
£Z Literature as Oral,
^ the Oral as Literature 77
Literature and performance 78
Studying oral forms 85
Oral art as literature 88
HI Is Oral Literature Composed
in Performance? 96
The Parry Lord model and African literary forms 97
What is oral literature anyway? 101
Oral composition 106
The place of the formula m
Orality as multiform 112
O Time, Performance
and Literature 114
Organising and timing poetic performances 115
Story telling as events in time 121
Internal temporal features, sustainability and the unity of texts 124
Timing and text 129
Literature and time 132
JLJLJL Working with Oral Texts 135
y Constructing Oral Literature in Africa
Hindsights a Generation Later 137
Some academic and personal background 138
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Contents
Those recurrent problems of terminology 141
Topics to revisit 148
What theoretical perspectives? 154
II (TX Creating Texts
Transformation and Enscription 158
The initial capture 160
Snaring into writing 166
Text making through translation 169
The fate of the finalised text 173
Enscripting: an uneasy process — or not? 175
11 Conceptualising Oral Texts
11 and Beyond 179
From oral tradition to contemporary dynamics
and popular culture 179
From unilinearity to historical specificity and multiple voices 184
Performance, orature and text 189
Across academic divides 196
JL V Epilogue 201
10 Words,
±Zj the Human Attribute? 203
Human history as the history of language 203
A more multiplex story? 205
Words in their place 210
Literature, performance and words in their place in Africa,
and beyond 217
References 225
Index 252
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