Aspects of African Oral Literature and Performance Aesthetics

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dc.contributor.authorAbdullahi, Kadir Ayinde
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-10T13:36:41Z
dc.date.available2018-05-10T13:36:41Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis paper gives an overview of an ethnographic portrait of the artists who recreate the tradition of oral performance as well as samples of performance situation of Ereno festival of Epe people in Lagos. The essay spells out certain aspects of oral tradition and critically examines how they did have the appreciation of beauty through performance. African oral tradition and folkways deal with man's existential being. It grapples with man's dilemma and adventure in life. The utilitarian value of the oral tradition is to utilize its various conventions for instruction and entertainment and to stimulate human feeling through songs, song-tales, riddles, beast-fables, parables, jokes, proverbs, anecdotes, legends, myths, fables, spies, folktales and stories. In traditional African literature, the oral performer spoke in prose and verse and song. The dynamism with which the performer exhibits the aesthetic potency of the oral forms makes the African poets and storytellers the community chroniclers, entertainers and collective consciousness.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/226
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of English and Literary Studies, Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Anambra Stateen_US
dc.subjectOral Literatureen_US
dc.subjectPerformanceen_US
dc.subjectAestheticsen_US
dc.subjectFestivalen_US
dc.subjectAfrican poetryen_US
dc.subjectethnographic potraiten_US
dc.titleAspects of African Oral Literature and Performance Aestheticsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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