Akintunde Akinyemi & Toyin Falola 
The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore [PDF ebook] 

This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore – including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy – this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore.

قائمة المحتويات

Chapter 1. Introduction: Perspectives on African Oral Traditions and Folklore.- Part I. Contexts and Practicalities.- Chapter 2. Creativity and Performance in Oral Poetry.- Chapter 3. Concept and Components of Performance.- Chapter 4. The Role of the Audience in Oral Performance.- Chapter 5. Orality, History, and Historical Reconstruction.- Chapter 6. Insights from Festivals and Carnivals.- Chapter 7. Fieldwork and Data Collection.- Chapter 8. Documenting Oral Genres.- Chapter 9. Retrospect and Prospects of Oral Tradition and Folklore.- Part II. Themes, Tropes and Types. Chapter 10. Epic Tradition.- Chapter 11. Divination and Divinatory Systems.- Chapter 12. Myth and Mythology.- Chapter 13. The Dirge.- Chapter 14. Dreams within the Context of the Basotho Culture.- Chapter 15. Drum Language and Literature.- Chapter 16. Oratory and Rhetoric: Praise Poetry.- Chapter 17. Proverbs, Naming, and other Forms of Veiled Speech.- Chapter 18. Oral Poetry: Monyoncho’s Orature and Aba Gusii Culture of Non-violence.- Chapter 19. Ifá: A Womanist Deconstruction of Gender Politics.- Chapter 20. A Repertoire of Bukusu Nonverbal Communicative System: Some Gender Differences, etc.

عن المؤلف

Editors:
Akintunde Akinyemi is Professor and Chair in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida, USA.
Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.


Partial Listing of Contributors: Julius Adekunle, Monmouth University

Simeon Ibigbolade Aderibigbe, University of Georgia at Athens, USA 
Chiji Akoma, Villanova University, USA 
Adetayo Alabi, University of Mississippi, USA
Joyce Ashuntantang, University of Hartford, USA
Karin Barber,  University of Birmingham, UK
Ragi Bashonga, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
Robert Cancel, University of California, San Diego, USA Raphael d’Abdon, University of South Africa

Ernest N. Emenyonu, University of Michigan–Flint, USA 
Olawole Famule, University of Wisconsin at Superior, USA
Artisia Green, College of William and Mary, USA
Marame Gueye, East Carolina University, USA
Lee Haring, Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA
Kathryn Jones, Swansea University, UK
Kasongo M. Kapanga, University of Richmond, USA Russell H. Kaschula, Rhodes University, South Africa

Cécile Leguy, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, France
Joseph Mc Laren, Hofstra University, USA
Patricia Beatrice Mireku-Gyimah, University of Mines and Technology, Ghana
Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler, Western Michigan University, USA Besi Brillian Muhonja, James Madison University, USA

Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, North Carolina State University, USA
Jacomien van Niekerk, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Felicia Ohwovoriole, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Rose Opondo, Moi University, Kenya
Félix Ayoh’Omidire, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Gail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy, USA
Lesibana Rafapa, University of South Africa Relfiwe M. Ramagoshi, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Angela M. Farr Schiller, Kennesaw State University, USA
Enongene Mirabeau Sone, Walter Sisulu University, Cameroon
Mobolanle Sotunsa, Babcock University, Nigeria
Rémi Armand Tchokothe, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Antoinette Tidjani Alaou, Niamey University, Niger
Karim Traoré, University of Georgia, USA
Hanétha Vété-Congolo, Bowdoin College, USA Hein Willemse, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Felicity Wood, University of Fort Hare, South Africa