Globalization, Oral Performance, and African Traditional Poetry

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-09143-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 100 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 162 g

This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first century electronic age. It seeks a new definition of contemporary African bourgeois in terms of its global reach, imitation of foreign forms and collaboration with the owners of the primary agencies. Additionally, it makes a case that African global lords or new bourgeoisie who are largely products of the new global capital and multinational corporations’ socio-political and cultural influences fashion their tastes after western cultures as portrayed in the digital realm.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Na'Allah, Abdul-Rasheed

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. African Art and the Crisis of Poverty and Social Divisions in a Global Era2. Criticism of African Art and Literature3. Ilorin Traditional Oral Art in the Context of Bourgeois Aesthetics4. A Pact between the Writer and the Oral Performer5. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah is Vice-Chancellor, Chief Executive Officer, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Kwara State University, Nigeria. He is co-author of Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance (2005), and author of Africanity, Islamicity and Performativity: Identity in the House of Ilorin (2009), African Discourse in Islam, Oral Traditions, and Performance (2010), and Cultural Globalization And Plurality: Africa and the New World (2011).