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Finnegan, Ruth H.

The oral and beyond : doing things with words in Africa / Ruth Finnegan. - Oxford : Chicago : Pietermaritzburg : James Currey ; University of Chicago Press ; University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007. - xiii, 258 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-251) and index.

Introducing words -- The reflective practice of speech and language : a West African example -- How to do things with words among the Limba -- The arts and action of Limba story-telling -- Stories of Africa, stories about Africa -- Literature as oral, the oral as literature -- Is oral literature composed in performance? -- Time, performance and literature -- Constructing 'oral literature in Africa' : hindsights a generation later -- Creating texts : transformation and enscription -- Conceptualising oral texts and beyond -- Words, the human attribute?

ISBN: 9780226249711 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226249728 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781847010001 (cloth : James Currey) 1847010008 (cloth : James Currey) 9781847010018 (pbk. : James Currey) 1847010016 (pbk. : James Currey) 0226249719 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226249727 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2007005768

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Oral tradition--Africa.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Africa--Folklore.

LC Class. No.: GR350 / .F556 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 398.2096