African discourse in Islam, oral traditions, and performance
By: Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah.
Series: African studies history, politics, economics, and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
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: Èlàlòrò: A Yorùbá Indigenous Discourse on Criticism and Interpretation; title: Èlàlòrò and Translation; title: Some Thoughts on Traditional Hausa Aesthetics and Arabic Influence on Yorùbá 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: Yorùbá 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.