Search Results - "Owomoyela, Oyekan"
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Proverbs and African Modernity: Defining an Ethics of Becoming
Published in Yoruba studies review (21-12-2021)“…African proverbs have, for good reason, attracted considerable attention from scholars, both African and non-African. One notable testimony to such attention…”
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Preservation or Mummification? The Implications of Subjecting Traditional Texts to Modern Processes
Published in Research in African literatures (22-09-2007)“…The postmodern sensibility encourages doing away with particularizing traits and practices that impede the final emergence of a global community and culture…”
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Focus on African Films by Françoise Pfaff (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2004)
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Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestions of j in Africana Literature , by Teresa N. Washington
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Readings in African Popular Fiction
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The Slave's Rebellion: Fiction, History, Orature
Published in Research in African Literatures (22-12-2006)“…Owomoyela reviews The Slave's Rebellion: Fiction, History, Orature by Adeleke Adeeko…”
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Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Àjé in Africana Literature
Published in Research in African Literatures (22-09-2007)“…The two-part study discusses Àjé in oral traditions in the first, and in the second, Àjé's operations in literature, primarily Gloria Naylor's Mama Day, T…”
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Readings in African Popular Fiction
Published in Comparative Literature Studies (01-01-2005)“…A review of Readings in African Popular Fiction edited by Stephanie Newell is presented…”
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With Friends Like These … A Critique of Pervasive Anti-Africanisms in Current African Studies Epistemology and Methodology
Published in African studies review (01-12-1994)“…Unlike certain area studies disciplines (Russian Studies and Oriental Studies, for example), African Studies has largely attracted scholars whose commitment to…”
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The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater
Published in Research in African Literatures (22-03-2004)“…Owomoyela reviews The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater by Karin Barber…”
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Yoruba Proverbs
Published in Research in African Literatures (22-09-2007)“…Readers will find in the book, preceded by two earlier proverb collections and one trickster tales compilation, a truly majestic culmination of Oyekan…”
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The preservation and survival of African oral literature
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Africa and the Imperative of philosophy: A Skeptical Consideration
Published in African studies review (01-03-1987)“…The African Studies Association in 1984 gave Paulin Hountondji a share in the Melville Herskovits award for the most significant Africanist publication for the…”
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Language, Identity, and Social Construction in African Literatures
Published in Research in African literatures (22-03-1992)“…Cultural identity and language are inseparable and so African writers should use their mother-tongues instead of European languages. Arguments that the…”
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Socialist Realism or African Realism? A Choice of Ancestors
Published in Research in African literatures (01-07-1991)“…Africa's "theoretical vacuum" is not a result of the out-migration of scholars, but due to the mental conditioning born of colonial education, which is…”
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Dissidence and the African Writer: Commitment or Dependency?
Published in African studies review (01-03-1981)“…The underlying logic of the African struggle for independence from European rule and subsequently from neo-colonialism in all its manifestations was (and is)…”
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Tortoise Tales and Yoruba Ethos
Published in Research in African literatures (01-07-1989)“…The familiar figure of the tortoise in Yoruba folklore is discussed. The tortoise is consistently depicted in the trickster role…”
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Obotunde Ijimere, The Phantom of Nigerian Theater
Published in African studies review (01-04-1979)“…Wọle Ṣoyinka in his recent Myth, Literature and the African World (1976) attempts to divest himself of the reputation that some of his earlier pronouncements…”
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Give me Drama or …: The Argument on the Existence of Drama in Traditional Africa
Published in African studies review (01-12-1985)“…Studies of drama and other performing arts in Africa suffer from what Andrew Horn (1981: 181) in a recent article terms “an unnecessary imprecision of…”
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BOOK REVIEW: Ad l k Ad k . THE SLAVE'S REBELLION: FICTION, HISTORY, ORATURE. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2005
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