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Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories (Hardcover)
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Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies
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Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories discusses the
oral life stories and poems that Africans, particularly the Yoruba
people, have told about the self and community over hundreds of
years. Disproving the Eurocentric argument that Africans didn't
produce stories about themselves, the author showcases a vibrant
literary tradition of oral autobiographies in Africa and the
diaspora. The oral auto/biographies studied in this book show that
stories and poems about individuals and their communities have
always existed in various African societies and they were used to
record, teach, and document history, culture, tradition, identity,
and resistance. Genres covered in the book include the panegyric,
witches' and wizards' narratives, the epithalamium tradition, the
hunter's chant, and Udje of the Urhobo. Providing an important
showcase for oral narrative traditions this book will be of
interest to students, scholars, and researchers in African and
Africana studies, literature and auto/biographical studies.
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