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The Oral and Beyond - Doing Things with Words in Africa (Hardcover)
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The Oral and Beyond - Doing Things with Words in Africa (Hardcover)
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Renowned as the scholar who has made a whole generation of
Africanists realise the singular importance of oral literature,
Ruth Finnegan asks whether Africa can still be considered 'the oral
continent'. Africa has long been known as the oral continent, at
once the home of oral literature, orature and orality, the oral
background to the postcolonial literatures of today, and the
inspirer of the voiced traditions of the diaspora. But does this
image of Africa and orality still stand up to scrutiny? In this new
synthesis of her earlier and most recent work Ruth Finnegan
illustrates the continuing interest of African verbal arts and
performances and reflects on the related development of 'orality'
studies through the decades since the 1960s. Her provocative
conclusion is that it is time to abandon the long-entrenched image
of Africa as 'the oral continent' and to adopt a more critical
comparative perspective on 'the oral'. RUTH FINNEGAN, FBA is
Visiting Research Professor and Emeritus Professor in the Faculty
of Social Sciences at the Open University and is the author of the
classic study Oral Literature in Africa North America: University
of Chicago Press; South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
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