Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories

ISBN-13: 9780367721664 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 240 str.

Adetayo Alabi

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The Place of Orí (Head) and Some Foundational Texts on Oríkì  3. Oríkì Praise Tradition in Yoruba Music  4. Niyi Osundare, Oríkì, and the Oral Auto/biographical Form  5. "I of the Valiant Stock": Yoruba Bridal Chant and the Auto/biographical Genre  6. "I am the hunter who kills elephants and baboons": The Auto/biographical Component of the Hunters’ Chant  7. When Witches and Wizards Are Narrators: Oral Auto/biography, Magical Realism, and Memory  8. The Auto/biographical Images of Africa in Udje and Tanure Ojaide’s Poetry  9. On Seeing Africa for the First Time: Orality, Panegyric, Memory, and the Diaspora in Isidore Okpewho’s Call Me By My Rightful Name  10. It Was Oríkì for You: Contemporary Reincarnations of Oral Life Story Genre in the Academy

O autorze

Adetayo Alabi teaches African and other world literatures and cultures at the University of Mississippi, USA