Author: Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2494108004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Author: Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2494108004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Canadian Government Publications: Catalogue
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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Interfaces Between the Oral and the Written
Author: Flora Veit-WildPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042019379
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In the African context, there exists the 'myth' that orality means tradition. Written and oral verbal art are often regarded as dichotomies, one excluding the other. While orature is confused with 'tradition', literature is ascribed to modernity. Furthermore, local languages are ignored and literature is equated with writing in foreign languages. The contributions in this volume take issue with such preconceptions and explore the multiple ways in which literary and oral forms interrelate and subvert each other, giving birth to new forms of artistic expression. They emphasize the local agency of the African poet and writer, which resists the global commodification of literature through the international bestseller lists of the cultural industry. The first section traces the movement from oral to written texts, which in many cases coincides with a switch from African to European languages. But as the essays in the section on "New Literary Languages" make clear, in other cases a true philological work is accomplished in the African language to create a new written and literary medium. Through the mixing of languages in the cities, such as the Sheng spoken in Kenya or the bilinguality of a writer such as Cheik Aliou Ndao (Senegal), new idioms for literary expressions evolve. The use of new media, technology or music stimulate the emergence of new genres, such as Taarab in East Africa, radio poetry in Yoruba and Hausa, or Rap in the Senegal, as is shown in the section on "Forms of New Orality." It is a great achievement of this second volume of Versions and Subversions in African Literatures that it assembles contributions by scholars from the anglophone and the francophone world and that it covers literary production in a broad spectrum of languages: English, French, Hausa, Sheng, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Wolof and Yoruba. Some of the authors and cultural practitioners treated in detail are: Mobolaij Adenubi, Birago Diop, Boubacar Boris Diop, David Maillu, Thomas Mofolo, Cheik Aliou Ndao, Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, Hubert Ogunde, Shaaban Robert, Wole Soyinka, Ibrahim YaroYahaya, and Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou.
Actes
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ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : fr
Pages : 606
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Canadian Government Publications
Author: Canada. Department of Supply and ServicesPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Canadian Government Publications; Monthly Catalogue
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ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Annals of Air and Space Law
Author: Nicolas Mateesco MattePublisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Architecture & Behaviour
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Ottawa
Author: Jeff KeshenPublisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 2760315703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
Ottawa - Making a Capital is a collection of 24 never-before published essays in English and in French on the history of Ottawa. It brings together leading historians, archeologists and archivists whose work reveals the rich tapestry of the city. Pre-contact society, French Canadian voyageurs, the early civil service, the first labour organizers and Jewish peddlers are among the many fascinating topics covered. Readers will also learn about the origins of local street names, the Great Fire of 1900, Ottawa's multicultural past, the demise of its streetcar system, Ottawa's transformation during the Second World War and the significance of federal government architecture. This book is an indispensable collection for those interested in local history and the history of Canada's capital.
Culture & Tradition
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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