African Discourse in Islam, Oral Traditions, and Performance

This work develops an African indigenous discourse paradigm for interpreting and understanding literary and cultural materials. By returning the African knowledge system back to its roots and placing it side by side with Western paradigms, Na'Allah has produced a text that will be required reading for scholars and students of African culture and literature.

List of contents

1. Èlàlòrò: A Yorùbá Indigenous Discourse on Criticism and Interpretation 2. Èlàlòrò and Translation 3. Some Thoughts on Traditional Hausa Aesthetics and Arabic Influence on Yorùbá and Hausa Written Traditions in Nigeria 4. Horses of Memory and The Word is an Egg: Osundare's Poetic Voices 5. Cultural Poetics, African Diaspora, and the Global World: Tanure Ojaide's I Want to Dance and Other Poems 6. African Cultural Revival as an Important Message in Death and the King's Horseman and The Lion and the Jewel 7. Language and Culture in an African Adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex 8. Yorùbá Egungun: Some Critical Thoughts 9. Traditional Oral Genre in a Muslim Ilorin: Survival Challenges 10. Mamman Shata Katsina and Omoekee Amao Ilorin: Islam, Performance, and Orality

About the author

Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah is Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Western Illinois University.

Summary

This work develops an African indigenous discourse paradigm for interpreting and understanding literary and cultural materials. By returning the African knowledge system back to its roots and placing it side by side with Western paradigms, Na'Allah has produced a text that will be required reading for scholars and students of African culture and literature.

Product details

• Authors: &apos, Abdul Rasheed allah, NA ALLAH ABDUL RASHEED, Na&apos, Abdul Rasheed Na'Allah, Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah, Abdul-Rasheed (Western Illinois University Na'Allah, Abdul Rasheed Na''allah, Abdul-Rasheed Na''allah, Abdul-Rasheed (Kwara State University Na''allah, Abdul-Rasheed (Western Illinois Univers Na''allah
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.07.2012
• EAN: 9780415653480
• ISBN: 978-0-415-65348-0
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: African Studies; African Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general