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03671aam a2200469 i 4500 001 EBA3892A1DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220817010036 008 210224t20222022enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021008950 020 $a 0367745054 020 $a 9780367745059 020 $a 036772166X 020 $a 9780367721664 035 $a (OCoLC)1240262737 040 $a IEN/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d DLC $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f-nr--- 050 00 $a GR351.32.Y56 $b A43 2022 082 04 $a 398.209669 $2 23 100 1 $a Alabi, Adetayo, $e author. 245 10 $a Oral forms of Nigerian autobiography and life stories / $c Adetayo Alabi. 264 1 $a Abingdon, Oxon ; $b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, $c 2022. 300 $a viii, 239 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a African diaspora literary and cultural studies 520 $a "Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories discusses the oral life stories and poems that Africans, particularly the Yoruba people, have told about the self and community over hundreds of years. Disproving the Eurocentric argument that Africans didn't produce stories about themselves, the author showcases a vibrant literary tradition of oral autobiographies in Africa and the diaspora. The oral auto/biographies studied in this book show that stories and poems about individuals and their communities have always existed in various African societies and they were used to record, teach, and document history, culture, tradition, identity, and resistance. Genres covered in the book include the panegyric, witches' and wizards' narratives, the epithalamium tradition, the hunter's chant, and Udje of the Urhobo. Providing an important showcase for oral narrative traditions this book will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers in African and Africana studies, literature and auto/biographical studies"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- The Place of OriÌ (Head) and Some Foundational Texts on OriÌkiÌ -- OriÌkiÌ Praise Tradition in Yoruba Music -- Niyi Osundare, OriÌkiÌ , and the Oral Auto/biographical Form -- "I of the Valiant Stock": Yoruba Bridal Chant and the Auto/biographical Genre -- "I am the hunter who kills elephants and baboons": The Auto/biographical Component of the Hunters' Chant -- When Witches and Wizards Are Narrators: Oral Auto/biography, Magical Realism, and Memory -- The Auto/biographical Images of Africa in Udje and Tanure Ojaide's Poetry -- On Seeing Africa for the First Time: Orality, Panegyric, Memory, and the Diaspora in Isidore Okpewho's Call Me By My Rightful Name -- It Was OriÌkiÌ for You: Contemporary Reincarnations of Oral Life Story Genre in the Academy. 600 10 $a Ojaide, Tanure, $d 1948- 650 0 $a Folk literature, Yoruba. 650 0 $a Folk poetry, Nigerian. 650 0 $a Autobiography in literature. 650 0 $a Orality in literature. 650 7 $a Autobiography in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00822620 650 7 $a Folk literature, Yoruba. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01202462 650 7 $a Folk poetry, Nigerian. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00929601 650 7 $a Orality in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01047130 776 08 $i Online version: $a Alabi, Adetayo, $t Oral forms of Nigerian autobiography and life stories $d Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. $z 9781003158219 $w (DLC) 2021008951 830 0 $a African diaspora literary and cultural studies. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031919.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EBA3892A1DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search