African discourse in Islam, oral traditions, and performance
By: Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah.
Series: African studies; African studies (Routledge (Firm))
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780415805926; 9780203863589
Subjects: Folk literature, Yoruba -- History and criticism; Folk literature, Hausa -- History and criticism; Yoruba language -- Discourse analysis; Hausa language -- Discourse analysis; Folklore -- Nigeria -- Performance; Islam and culture -- Nigeria; Islam -- Nigeria -- Influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ẹ̀làlọ̀rọ̀: A Yorubá indigenous discourse on criticism and interpretation; title: Ẹ̀làlọ̀rọ̀ and translation; title: Some thoughts on traditional Hausa aesthetics and Arabic influence on Yorubá and Hausa written traditions in Nigeria; title: Horses of memory and The word is an egg : Osundare's poetic voices; title: Cultural poetics, African diaspora, and the global world : Tanure Ojaide's I want to dance and other poems; title: African cultural revival as an important message in Death and the king's horseman and The lion and the jewel; title: Language and culture in an African adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex; title: Yorubá Egungun : some critical thoughts; title: Traditional oral genre in a Muslim Ilorin : survival challenges; title: Mamman Shata Katsina and Omoekee Amao Ilorin : Islam, performance, and orality.