عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
LA119953
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Shepherding the Chants Home:
General Material Designation
[Article]
Other Title Information
Language and Mmanwu Minstrelsy in Ezenwa-Ohaetos Poetry
First Statement of Responsibility
Obododimma Oha
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"The essay discusses Ezenwa-Ohaeto's use of the masquerade () minstrel as a paradigm in his experimentation with language in his poetry. Such experimentation with local African oral aesthetics is common in postcolonial African literature, and has been one way that African writers have hoped to create authenticity for their writings. Ezenwa-Ohaeto in his poetry, however, does not practise this experimentation as a mere identification and use of for the minstrel (for instance in the use of proverbs, paradoxical expressions, etc. culturally associated with the persona), but reworks and re-contextualizes the local expressions. His attention to language, though not entirely successful, reveals the project on the localization of the language of African poetry as being worth-while if it treats the local sayings as raw materials from which something new must be created. The African poet who is able to take language beyond what the indigenous sources have provided is the real "shepherd" of chants."
SET
Date of Publication
2006
Physical description
135-152
Title
Matatu
Volume Number
33/1
International Standard Serial Number
1875-7421
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
African Studies
Subject Term
Comparative Studies & World Literature
Subject Term
Criticism & Theory
Subject Term
Cultural History
Subject Term
Literature & Culture
Subject Term
Literature and Cultural Studies
Subject Term
Postcolonial Literature & Culture
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Obododimma Oha
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
10.1163/18757421-033001026
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب p
[Article]
275578
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Y
