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Author : Mariam Konate Deme
Release : 2004
Genre : Epic literature, African
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Book Synopsis The Role and Function of the Supernatural in the African Epic by : Mariam Konate Deme
Download or read book The Role and Function of the Supernatural in the African Epic written by Mariam Konate Deme. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mariam Konaté Deme
Release : 2010-09-13
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 658/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Heroism and the Supernatural in the African Epic by : Mariam Konaté Deme
Download or read book Heroism and the Supernatural in the African Epic written by Mariam Konaté Deme. This book was released on 2010-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western criticism has largely failed to acknowledge the distinctiveness of African literary aesthetics. This book revises traditional literary canons in examining the social, cultural and emotional specificity of African epics and highlighting distinguishing features, such as the significance of the fantastic and its use in the epic dramatic structure.
Author : Mariam Konaté Deme
Release : 2010-09-13
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 64X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Heroism and the Supernatural in the African Epic by : Mariam Konaté Deme
Download or read book Heroism and the Supernatural in the African Epic written by Mariam Konaté Deme. This book was released on 2010-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There exists a strong tendency within Western literary criticism to either deny the existence of epics in Africa or to see African literatures as exotic copies of European originals. In both cases, Western criticism has largely failed to acknowledge the distinctiveness of African literary aesthetics. This book revises traditional literary canons in examining the social, cultural and emotional specificity of African epics. Mariam Konate Deme highlights the distinguishing features that characterize the African epic, emphasizing the significance of the fantastic and its use as an essential element in the dramatic structure of African epics. As Deme notes, the fantastic can be fully appreciated only against the cosmological background of the societies that produce those heroic tales. This book not only contributes to the scholarship on African oral literature, but also adds reshapes our understanding of heroic literature in general.
Author : Zoltán Biedermann
Release : 2018-01-23
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 924/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis From the Supernatural to the Uncanny by : Zoltán Biedermann
Download or read book From the Supernatural to the Uncanny written by Zoltán Biedermann. This book was released on 2018-01-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of thirteen essays built around the question ‘what is the supernatural, and how, and why, has it changed over time?’ It is divided into two complementary sections; the first focussing on research on the discourse of the supernatural (including the miraculous) located in the medieval and early modern eras, and the second consisting of a set of test-cases involving research on the uncanny, often articulated in a post-Freudian sense, as expressed in modern literature, film and art. The eclectic and prismatic approach pursued via a variety of test-cases of the supernatural in this book gives rise to a clear, comparative and diachronic study of the main characteristics of the supernatural.
Author : Lifongo J. Vetinde
Release : 2019-11-29
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 577/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism by : Lifongo J. Vetinde
Download or read book African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism written by Lifongo J. Vetinde. This book was released on 2019-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad range of cultural works produced in traditional and modern African communities shows a fundamental preoccupation with the concepts of communal solidarity and hospitality in societies driven by humanistic ideals. African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism is an inaugural attempt to focus exclusively and extensively on the question of humanism in African art and culture. This collection brings together scholars from different disciplines who deftly examine the deployment of various forms of artistic production such as oral and written literatures, paintings, and cartoons to articulate an Afrocentric humanist discourse. The contributors argue that the artists, in their representation of civil wars, massive corruption, poverty, abuse of human rights, and other dehumanizing features of post-independence Africa, call for a return to the traditional African vision of humanism that is relentlessly being eroded by the realities of postcolonial nationhood.
