عنوان

Shepherding the Chants Home:

شماره

LA119953

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Shepherding the Chants Home:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Language and Mmanwu Minstrelsy in Ezenwa-Ohaetos Poetry

نام نخستين پديدآور

Obododimma Oha

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

"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."

تاريخ نشر

2006

توصيف ظاهري

135-152

عنوان

Matatu

شماره جلد

33/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1875-7421

اصطلاح موضوعی

African Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Comparative Studies & World Literature

اصطلاح موضوعی

Criticism & Theory

اصطلاح موضوعی

Cultural History

اصطلاح موضوعی

Literature & Culture

اصطلاح موضوعی

Literature and Cultural Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Postcolonial Literature & Culture

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Obododimma Oha

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/18757421-033001026

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y