Power and the praise poem : southern African voices in history
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書誌事項
Power and the praise poem : southern African voices in history
（Carter G. Woodson Institute series in Black studies）
University Press of Virginia , James Currey, 1991
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- James Currey cloth
- : pbk
- : James Currey paper
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-337) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Examines the political role of the poet in the oral societies of southern Africa.
Vail and White present the case for the dynamism of oral culture and the active role of poets and poetry in Southern African history.
North America: The University Press of Virginia
目次
- The invention of "oral man" - anthropology, lietrary theory and a Western intellectual tradition
- "maps of experience" - songs and poetry in Southern Africa
- the development of forms - Ndebele royal praises
- the development of forms - the Chopi Migodo
- Swazi royal praises - the invention of tradition
- "Paiva" - the history of a song
- the possession of the dispossessed - songs as history among Tumbuka women
- of chameleons and clowns - the case of Jack Mapanje.
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