Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Note on transcription
- 1 Introduction: power, marginality and oral literature
- Part I Orality and the power of the state
- Part II Representing power relations
- Part III Oral forms and the dynamics of power
- Part IV Endorsing or subverting the paradigms: women and oral forms
- Part V Mediators and communicative strategies
- Bibliography
- Index
Part I - Orality and the power of the state
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Note on transcription
- 1 Introduction: power, marginality and oral literature
- Part I Orality and the power of the state
- Part II Representing power relations
- Part III Oral forms and the dynamics of power
- Part IV Endorsing or subverting the paradigms: women and oral forms
- Part V Mediators and communicative strategies
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature , pp. 21 - 22Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995