Shepherding the Chants Home:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Shepherding the Chants Home: "
Obododimma Oha

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1076324
Doc. No	:	LA119953
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18757421-033001026‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Obododimma Oha
Title & Author	:	Shepherding the Chants Home: [Article] : Language and Mmanwu Minstrelsy in Ezenwa–Ohaetos Poetry\ Obododimma Oha
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Matatu
Date	:	2006
Volume/ Issue Number	:	33/1
Page No	:	135–152
Abstract	:	"The essay discusses Ezenwa–Ohaeto's use of the masquerade () minstrel as a paradigm in his experimentation with language in his poetry. Such experimentation with local African oral aesthetics is common in postcolonial African literature, and has been one way that African writers have hoped to create authenticity for their writings. Ezenwa–Ohaeto in his poetry, however, does not practise this experimentation as a mere identification and use of for the minstrel (for instance in the use of proverbs, paradoxical expressions, etc. culturally associated with the persona), but reworks and re-contextualizes the local expressions. His attention to language, though not entirely successful, reveals the project on the localization of the language of African poetry as being worth-while if it treats the local sayings as raw materials from which something new must be created. The African poet who is able to take language beyond what the indigenous sources have provided is the real "shepherd" of chants."
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	Comparative Studies World Literature
Descriptor	:	Criticism Theory
Descriptor	:	Cultural History
Descriptor	:	Literature Culture
Descriptor	:	Literature and Cultural Studies
Descriptor	:	Postcolonial Literature Culture
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18757421-033001026‬