Storytelling in northern Zambia : theory, method, practice and other necessary fictions
Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life of Zambia and in many other communities across Africa. This innovative book provides a collection and analysis of oral narrative traditions as practiced by five Bembaspeaking ethnic groups in Zambia. The integration of newly digitalis...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Cambridge :
Open Book Publishers
2015.
Marseille : OpenEdition |
| Col·lecció: | World oral literature series
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| Accés en línia: | Ressource accessible en libre accès Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM ; Accès complet au document dans sa version HTML. Pas d'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub). |
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Description d'après la consultation, 2016-03-07 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : 274 pages OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Storytelling in northern Zambia, theory, method, practice and other necessary fictions, Robert Cancel, Cambridge, UK, Open Book Publishers, 2013, 1 vol. (xviii-274 p.), World oral literature series, 978-1-909254-60-2 |
| Sumari: | Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life of Zambia and in many other communities across Africa. This innovative book provides a collection and analysis of oral narrative traditions as practiced by five Bembaspeaking ethnic groups in Zambia. The integration of newly digitalised audio and video recordings into the text enables the reader to encounter the storytellers themselves and hear their narratives. Robert Cancel's thorough critical interpretation, combined with these newly digitalised audio and video materials, makes Storytelling in Northern Zambia a much needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies that deal with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, reflexive description and simple documentation and succeeds in bringing to the reader a set of performers and their performances that are vivid, varied and instructive. He illustrates this living narrative tradition with a wide range of examples, and highlights the social status of narrators and the complex local identities that are at play. Cancel's study tells us not only about storytelling but sheds light on the study of oral literatures throughout Africa and beyond. Its innovative format, meanwhile, explores new directions in the integration of primary source material into scholarly texts |
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| Descripció de l’ítem: | Description d'après la consultation, 2016-03-07 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : 274 pages OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Format: | Navigateur Web |
| Bibliografia: | Bibliogr. Index |
| ISBN: | 9782821854130 |
| Accés: | L'accès complet au document est ouvert à tous dans sa version HTML. L'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub) est réservé aux usagers des établissements qui en ont fait l'acquisition |