Oral Narratives as Reformative Texts in Africa: Forms and Functions of Folktales and Epics

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dc.contributor.authorBinta, Ibrahim
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-15T09:43:57Z
dc.date.available2019-10-15T09:43:57Z
dc.date.issued2018-06-15
dc.descriptionDevelopment From Below and Above in Africa, Centre for Democracy, Research and Development (CEDRED), Nairobi, Kenyaen_US
dc.description.abstractOral narratives are anecdotal and as a result, they contain particular amusing events which aid scholars’ reconstruction of new ideas and additional values. A synthesis of theories could therefore be used in additional to the sociological approach applied to the analysis done here. The aesthetic world of African oral narratives convinces us that an oral text can be an academic subject with its own poetic narrative meaning and peculiar characteristics.The aim of this study is to recover aspects of the valuable literary culture that has not been explored enough in contemporary oral narratives. And this aim of exploring oral narratives here under its present setting, is to elevate it from abstract narratives to intellectual discourse thereby making a distinction between the nature of traditional oral art and modern art.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-9966-116-75-8
dc.identifier.urihttps://kenyasocialscienceforum.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/new-book-development-from-below-and-above-in-africa/
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2479
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMultimedia University of Kenya & Kenya Scholars Studies Association.en_US
dc.subjectSolidarityen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectWisdomen_US
dc.subjectAnecdotalen_US
dc.subjectSensitivityen_US
dc.subjectDeconstructonen_US
dc.subjectFolktaleen_US
dc.subjectEpicen_US
dc.subjectQualitiesen_US
dc.subjectStandarden_US
dc.titleOral Narratives as Reformative Texts in Africa: Forms and Functions of Folktales and Epicsen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US

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