African Oral Story-telling Tradition and the Zimbabwean Novel in English - Brossura

Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1868883043 ISBN 13: 9781868883042

Casa editrice: Unisa Pr, 2004

Riassunto

This study presents a break with previous literary criticism that has vilified orality, in an effort to understand the interface between orality and the black Zimbabwean novel. It traces the ways in which the African oral story-telling tradition has survived within the black Zimbabwean novel in English. The author critically analyses the works of eight leading Zimbabwean creative writers, revealing how they have used oral story-telling traditions in their literature. He argues that throughout the colonisation, liberation and post- independence periods, African orature was and remains a mode of expressing resistance to authoritarian ideas and cultural dominance, and a social vision.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Unisa Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1868883043
• ISBN 13: 9781868883042
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 130