Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in African Women's DramaAfrica World Press, 2007 - 322 pages |
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... oral traditions in African literature . It is commonplace to extrapolate certain elements of oral expression and present them as paradigmatic , thereby reducing oral traditions to a set of collectivized , acontextual , apolitical , and ...
... oral traditions in African literature . It is commonplace to extrapolate certain elements of oral expression and present them as paradigmatic , thereby reducing oral traditions to a set of collectivized , acontextual , apolitical , and ...
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... oral traditions , in which they , like their audiences , first acquired the symbolic forms to construct their sense of the world around them.37 In this study , I also move beyond the question of whether or not there is a link between oral ...
... oral traditions , in which they , like their audiences , first acquired the symbolic forms to construct their sense of the world around them.37 In this study , I also move beyond the question of whether or not there is a link between oral ...
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... oral performance that Mlama utilizes very effectively is immediacy . Isidore Okpewho postulates that " oral literature , even when it deals with events of history , presents constantly to members of contemporary society the standards of ...
... oral performance that Mlama utilizes very effectively is immediacy . Isidore Okpewho postulates that " oral literature , even when it deals with events of history , presents constantly to members of contemporary society the standards of ...
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