The African Epic Controversy - Mugyabuso M. Mulokozi - Books - Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers - 9789987686292 - September 5, 2000
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The African Epic Controversy

Mugyabuso M. Mulokozi

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The African Epic Controversy

Mulokozi discusses African epic poetry from a context-performance perspective, and asserts that oral epic poetry is a living and lived event, besides being a literary text. His work is based on previously unpublished material from the Enanga epic tradition of the Bahaya of Tanzania, and material on the African epic, gathered from West, Central, Southern and Eastern Africa since 1970, and arises from the controversies about the occurrence of the epic in Africa from this time. It includes full texts of the poems themselves in the original Luhaya language and set alongside English translations. For each poem, the author presents a profile of the singer, and an introduction and anaylsis of the socio-historical context, literary content and stylistic features of the poem. Adopting a sociological, generative approach, he re-examines questions of oral composition, oral poetics, the nature and role of music in epic performance, the concept of heroism in African epic poetry, and how it stands in relation to history and philosophy. As a whole, the study reaffirms the existence of the African epic, and generates new definitions and theoretical approaches taking forward scholarly debate on epic poetry in Africa.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 5, 2000
ISBN13 9789987686292
Publishers Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers
Pages 572
Dimensions 148 × 34 × 228 mm   ·   820 g
Language English