Ethnosensitive Dimensions of African Oral Literature: Igbo Perspectives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 194072919X ISBN 13: 9781940729190

Publisher: African Heritage Press, 2017

Synopsis

Ethnosensitive Dimensions of  African Oral Literature: Igbo Perspectives is a collection of nineteen essays spanning all genres of African Oral literature, from the poetic genre to the rhetorical genre. Part One of the book is introductory, and includes three essays that are of a general kind, touching all aspects of the genres, while Part Two includes six essays concerned with the poetic genre. Part Three, made up of two essays and concern the prose genre while Part Four, of two essays, examines the drama genre. Part Five, made up of three essays, addresses the rhetorical genre, and Part Six has three essays that cut across all the genres. The contributions examine the implications of ethnocentric imperatives of oral literature in relation to nationalistic demands.    

About this title

About the Author:

Afam Ebeogu is currently a professor of English at the Abia State University, Uturu, Abia State, Nigeria.

About this edition

• Publisher: African Heritage Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 194072919X
• ISBN 13: 9781940729190
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 472
• Editor: Ebeogu Afam