Oyekan Owomoyela
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 146160 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Oyekan Owomoyela |
| NOMBRES | Oyekan |
| APELLIDO | Owomoyela |
| FIRMA | OWOMOYELA O |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Proverbs and African Modernity
African proverbs have, for good reason, attracted considerable attention from scholars, both African and non-African. One notable testimony to such attention is the international conference in South Africa from which came a monumental collection of scholarly articles now available on CD and in print. Another evidence of the interest the subject has enjoyed among African scholars is the wealth of publications they have produced in recent years, fo…
Preservation or Mummification? The Implications of Subjecting Traditional Texts to Modern Processes
The postmodern sensibility encourages doing away with particularizing traits and practices that impede the final emergence of a global community and culture. This reality and its imperatives inevitably come to mind when one works on traditional texts like Yoruba proverbs. The mechanical means at our disposal for recording and preserving such texts effectively release them from their traditional ties to specific cultural, social, and geographical …
Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts
Reviewed by: Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Àjé in Africana Literature Oyekan Owomoyela Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Àjé in Africana Literature By Teresa N. Washington Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2006. xi + 333 pp. ISBN 0-253-21757-1 paper. The author seeks to formulate for Àjé, a manifestation of female power and agency pervasive in Africana oral and literary texts, "a definitive, holistic Africa-base…
Readings in African Popular Fiction
Book Review| January 01 2005 Readings in African Popular Fiction Readings in African Popular FictionNewell, Stephanie Oyekan Owomoyela Oyekan Owomoyela Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (3): 229–231. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247493 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Oyekan Owomoyela; Readings in African Popular Fiction. Comparative Literature …
Culture and Customs of Zimbabwe
Series Foreword Chronology Introduction Thought and Religion Literature and Media Art, Cinema, and Architecture Leisure, Dress, and Cuisine Gender Roles, Marriages, and Family Social Customs and Lifestyle Music and Dance Glossary Bibliography Index
Culture and Customs of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, formerly known as Rhodesia, won its independence from Great Britain in 1980 yet continues to feel the impact of Western lifestyles and prejudices. This rich, accessible overview freshly examines Zimbabwe, evoking the contemporary ways of life in a largely homogenous and agricultural country. Students and general readers will discover an engaging narrative that ranges from an explanation of the beer culture to a powerful discussion of ma…
Culture and customs of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, formerly known as Rhodesia, won its independence from Great Britain in 1980 yet continues to feel the impact of Western lifestyles and prejudices. This rich, accessible overview freshly examines Zimbabwe, evoking the contemporary ways of life in a largely homogenous and agricultural country.". "Students and general readers will discover an engaging narrative that ranges from an explanation of the beer culture to a powerful discussion of…
Amos Tutuola Revisited
A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures
White on Black
A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures
With Friends like These… A Critique of Pervasive Anti-Africanisms in Current African Studies Epistemology and Methodology
Unlike certain area studies disciplines (Russian Studies and Oriental Studies, for example), African Studies has largely attracted scholars whose commitment to their subject transcends mere professionalism. The sensible assumption with regard to African Africanists is, of course, that their orientation would be decidedly pro-African, but within the discipline, the notion is widespread that at least for the most part, even non-African Africanists …
A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures
is a comprehensive examination of authors, works, and movements.--The Black Scholar major reference text for African literature, providing solid information on the field in the various languages, and on authors, works, and movements. It will be invaluable.--Abiola Irele, author of The African Experience in Literature and Ideology. African literatures, says volume editor Oyekan Owomoyela, testify to the great and continuing impact of the colonizin…
African Oral Literature
The Surreptitious Speech
Parables and Fables
I Could Speak until Tomorrow
Nigerian Civil War Literature
The Good Things in Life
African Philosophy, Culture, and Traditional Medicine
For over two centuries, Western scholars have discussed African philosophy and culture, often in disparaging, condescending terms, and always from an alien European perspective. Many Africans now share this perspective, having been trained in the western, empirical tradition. Makinde argues that, particularly in view of the costs and failings of western style culture, Africans must now mold their own modern culture by blending useful western prac…
Africa and the Imperative of Philosophy
The African Studies Association in 1984 gave Paulin Hountondji a share in the Melville Herskovits award for the most significant Africanist publication for the previous year. The selection of Hountondji's book, African Philosophy: Myth and Reality (1983), suggests, logically, that the Association believes the book to be a significant contribution to African Studies. One might go even a step further and conclude that it indicates the Association's…
Give Me Drama or
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 nomenclature.” Horn has in mind the tendency among certain scholars, African and non-African, to apply the name “drama” to African traditional performances of every description. Convincing corroboration for his point comes from the entries (among which his article is one) in Yemi Ogunbiyi's (1981) …
The Wedding Camels
African Literatures
Dissidence and the African Writer
The underlying logic of African struggle for independence from European1 rule and subsequently from neo-colonialism in all its manifestations was (and is) that European intrusion into African life was inhumane and disruptive. European enslavement of Africans bespoke a denial of African humanity, and European colonization of continent denied Africans right to follow developmental course charted by their past experiences as most consistent with the…
Parables and Fables
The Surreptitious Speech
African Oral Literature
Amos Tutuola Revisited
African Literatures
Obotunde Ijimere, the Phantom of Nigerian Theater
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 have earned him as a denier of the existence of a distinctive Africanity, and to shake off the foreign sympathizers who have unfairly, he claims, exploited those early positions to bolster their racist denial of an “African world.” His intention in this book is to demonstrate his belief in t…
Africa and the Imperative of Philosophy
The African Studies Association in 1984 gave Paulin Hountondji a share in the Melville Herskovits award for the most significant Africanist publication for the previous year. The selection of Hountondji's book, African Philosophy: Myth and Reality (1983), suggests, logically, that the Association believes the book to be a significant contribution to African Studies. One might go even a step further and conclude that it indicates the Association's…
Preservation or Mummification? The Implications of Subjecting Traditional Texts to Modern Processes
The postmodern sensibility encourages doing away with particularizing traits and practices that impede the final emergence of a global community and culture. This reality and its imperatives inevitably come to mind when one works on traditional texts like Yoruba proverbs. The mechanical means at our disposal for recording and preserving such texts effectively release them from their traditional ties to specific cultural, social, and geographical …
Readings in African Popular Fiction
Book Review| January 01 2005 Readings in African Popular Fiction Readings in African Popular FictionNewell, Stephanie Oyekan Owomoyela Oyekan Owomoyela Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (3): 229–231. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247493 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Oyekan Owomoyela; Readings in African Popular Fiction. Comparative Literature …
The Good Things in Life
Give Me Drama or
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 nomenclature.” Horn has in mind the tendency among certain scholars, African and non-African, to apply the name “drama” to African traditional performances of every description. Convincing corroboration for his point comes from the entries (among which his article is one) in Yemi Ogunbiyi's (1981) …
Dissidence and the African Writer
The underlying logic of African struggle for independence from European1 rule and subsequently from neo-colonialism in all its manifestations was (and is) that European intrusion into African life was inhumane and disruptive. European enslavement of Africans bespoke a denial of African humanity, and European colonization of continent denied Africans right to follow developmental course charted by their past experiences as most consistent with the…
Myth, Literature and the African World
Obotunde Ijimere, the Phantom of Nigerian Theater
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 have earned him as a denier of the existence of a distinctive Africanity, and to shake off the foreign sympathizers who have unfairly, he claims, exploited those early positions to bolster their racist denial of an “African world.” His intention in this book is to demonstrate his belief in t…
Dissidence and the African Writer
The underlying logic of African struggle for independence from European1 rule and subsequently from neo-colonialism in all its manifestations was (and is) that European intrusion into African life was inhumane and disruptive. European enslavement of Africans bespoke a denial of African humanity, and European colonization of continent denied Africans right to follow developmental course charted by their past experiences as most consistent with the…
African Literatures
The Wedding Camels
Give Me Drama or
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 nomenclature.” Horn has in mind the tendency among certain scholars, African and non-African, to apply the name “drama” to African traditional performances of every description. Convincing corroboration for his point comes from the entries (among which his article is one) in Yemi Ogunbiyi's (1981) …
Africa and the Imperative of Philosophy
The African Studies Association in 1984 gave Paulin Hountondji a share in the Melville Herskovits award for the most significant Africanist publication for the previous year. The selection of Hountondji's book, African Philosophy: Myth and Reality (1983), suggests, logically, that the Association believes the book to be a significant contribution to African Studies. One might go even a step further and conclude that it indicates the Association's…
African Philosophy, Culture, and Traditional Medicine
For over two centuries, Western scholars have discussed African philosophy and culture, often in disparaging, condescending terms, and always from an alien European perspective. Many Africans now share this perspective, having been trained in the western, empirical tradition. Makinde argues that, particularly in view of the costs and failings of western style culture, Africans must now mold their own modern culture by blending useful western prac…
I Could Speak until Tomorrow
Nigerian Civil War Literature
The Good Things in Life
The Surreptitious Speech
Parables and Fables
With Friends like These… A Critique of Pervasive Anti-Africanisms in Current African Studies Epistemology and Methodology
Unlike certain area studies disciplines (Russian Studies and Oriental Studies, for example), African Studies has largely attracted scholars whose commitment to their subject transcends mere professionalism. The sensible assumption with regard to African Africanists is, of course, that their orientation would be decidedly pro-African, but within the discipline, the notion is widespread that at least for the most part, even non-African Africanists …
A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures
is a comprehensive examination of authors, works, and movements.--The Black Scholar major reference text for African literature, providing solid information on the field in the various languages, and on authors, works, and movements. It will be invaluable.--Abiola Irele, author of The African Experience in Literature and Ideology. African literatures, says volume editor Oyekan Owomoyela, testify to the great and continuing impact of the colonizin…
African Oral Literature
White on Black
A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures
A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures
Amos Tutuola Revisited
Culture and Customs of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, formerly known as Rhodesia, won its independence from Great Britain in 1980 yet continues to feel the impact of Western lifestyles and prejudices. This rich, accessible overview freshly examines Zimbabwe, evoking the contemporary ways of life in a largely homogenous and agricultural country. Students and general readers will discover an engaging narrative that ranges from an explanation of the beer culture to a powerful discussion of ma…
Culture and customs of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, formerly known as Rhodesia, won its independence from Great Britain in 1980 yet continues to feel the impact of Western lifestyles and prejudices. This rich, accessible overview freshly examines Zimbabwe, evoking the contemporary ways of life in a largely homogenous and agricultural country.". "Students and general readers will discover an engaging narrative that ranges from an explanation of the beer culture to a powerful discussion of…
Culture and Customs of Zimbabwe
Series Foreword Chronology Introduction Thought and Religion Literature and Media Art, Cinema, and Architecture Leisure, Dress, and Cuisine Gender Roles, Marriages, and Family Social Customs and Lifestyle Music and Dance Glossary Bibliography Index
Readings in African Popular Fiction
Book Review| January 01 2005 Readings in African Popular Fiction Readings in African Popular FictionNewell, Stephanie Oyekan Owomoyela Oyekan Owomoyela Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (3): 229–231. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247493 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Oyekan Owomoyela; Readings in African Popular Fiction. Comparative Literature …
Preservation or Mummification? The Implications of Subjecting Traditional Texts to Modern Processes
The postmodern sensibility encourages doing away with particularizing traits and practices that impede the final emergence of a global community and culture. This reality and its imperatives inevitably come to mind when one works on traditional texts like Yoruba proverbs. The mechanical means at our disposal for recording and preserving such texts effectively release them from their traditional ties to specific cultural, social, and geographical …
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