Robert Cancel
Biographic Data
| ID | 137203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Cancel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Cancel |
| SIGNATURE | CANCEL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The rogue in African literature: Trickster or pícaro
The Tabwa Context: Mature Shifting of Frames and Adolescent Assertion
A collection and analysis of the oral narrative traditions of northern Zambia, this innovative book integrates audio and video recordings into the text. Robert Cancel’s critical interpretation, meanwhile, makes his work a much-needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies dealing with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, ref…
Telling Tales While Keeping Secrets: Two Lunda Storytelling Sessions
A collection and analysis of the oral narrative traditions of northern Zambia, this innovative book integrates audio and video recordings into the text. Robert Cancel’s critical interpretation, meanwhile, makes his work a much-needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies dealing with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, ref…
Writing Oral Narrative: The Role and Description of Self in Recording Living Traditions
A collection and analysis of the oral narrative traditions of northern Zambia, this innovative book integrates audio and video recordings into the text. Robert Cancel’s critical interpretation, meanwhile, makes his work a much-needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies dealing with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, ref…
Conclusion: Lessons from Frozen Moments
A collection and analysis of the oral narrative traditions of northern Zambia, this innovative book integrates audio and video recordings into the text. Robert Cancel’s critical interpretation, meanwhile, makes his work a much-needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies dealing with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, ref…
Bisa Storytelling: The Politics of Hunting, Beer-Drinks, and Elvis
A collection and analysis of the oral narrative traditions of northern Zambia, this innovative book integrates audio and video recordings into the text. Robert Cancel’s critical interpretation, meanwhile, makes his work a much-needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies dealing with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, ref…
Storytelling in Northern Zambia: Theory, Method, Practice and Other Necessary Fictions
A collection and analysis of the oral narrative traditions of northern Zambia, this innovative book integrates audio and video recordings into the text. Robert Cancel’s critical interpretation, meanwhile, makes his work a much-needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies dealing with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, ref…
Last Grave at Dimbaza
Asserting/Inventing Traditions on the Luapula: The Lunda Mutomboko Festival
Whose Africa Is It, Anyway? Or, What Exactly Is Skip Gates Signifyin
Allegorical Speculation in an Oral Society: The Tabwa Narrative Tradition
Allegorical Speculation in an Oral Society: The Tabwa Narrative Tradition
Discourse and Its Disguises: The Interpretation of African Oral Texts
Broadcasting Oral Traditions: The "Logic" of Narrative Variants--The Problem of "Message
In his article Language and the Media in Graham Mytton (1978) points out that: Radio is the supreme medium of communication in Zambia, and the only one reaching a majority of the population. The Zambia Broadcasting Services provides two groups of programs, the Home Service, in English and the seven national Zambian languages, and the General Service, which is mostly in English, with a bit of programming in Bemba, Nyanja, and, until 1980, Shona an…
Introductory Remarks on African Humanities
This issue of the African Studies Review is devoted to research in the African humanities. The appearance of new approaches to the study of literary texts, oral traditions, and the popular arts has inspired us to assemble this collection. Recently, the African humanities have been neglected as an important area in which new empirical and theoretical advances have been made for the study of oral texts, art, and performance.The articles in this col…
Epic Elements in Ceddo
While film and oral narrative performance are two distinct media, Ousmane Sembene of Senegal is uniquely gifted to play the role of a cinéaste/griot. In Ceddo, perhaps his most accomplished film to date, he uses several traditional narrative patterns, as well as developing the scope and pageantry of oral epic, to create an allegorical history of the confluence of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade in a West African kingdom. Sembene also use…
Third Cinema in the Third World: The Aesthetics of Liberation
Writers in Politics
Growth of the African Novel
Folktales of Egypt
In this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy's English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve their spirit, but give Middle Eastern lore the scholarly attention it has long deserved. This collection of seventy recently collected Egyptian tales is a major contribution to African studies and to international distrib…
Rich Man's Medicine Poor Man's Medicine . 1979. Produced by Gordian Troeller and Marie Claude Deffarge
Discourse and Its Disguises: The Interpretation of African Oral Texts
Broadcasting Oral Traditions: The "Logic" of Narrative Variants--The Problem of "Message
In his article Language and the Media in Graham Mytton (1978) points out that: Radio is the supreme medium of communication in Zambia, and the only one reaching a majority of the population. The Zambia Broadcasting Services provides two groups of programs, the Home Service, in English and the seven national Zambian languages, and the General Service, which is mostly in English, with a bit of programming in Bemba, Nyanja, and, until 1980, Shona an…
Rich Man's Medicine Poor Man's Medicine . 1979. Produced by Gordian Troeller and Marie Claude Deffarge
Growth of the African Novel
Folktales of Egypt
In this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy's English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve their spirit, but give Middle Eastern lore the scholarly attention it has long deserved. This collection of seventy recently collected Egyptian tales is a major contribution to African studies and to international distrib…
Writers in Politics
Epic Elements in Ceddo
While film and oral narrative performance are two distinct media, Ousmane Sembene of Senegal is uniquely gifted to play the role of a cinéaste/griot. In Ceddo, perhaps his most accomplished film to date, he uses several traditional narrative patterns, as well as developing the scope and pageantry of oral epic, to create an allegorical history of the confluence of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade in a West African kingdom. Sembene also use…
Third Cinema in the Third World: The Aesthetics of Liberation
Broadcasting Oral Traditions: The "Logic" of Narrative Variants--The Problem of "Message
In his article Language and the Media in Graham Mytton (1978) points out that: Radio is the supreme medium of communication in Zambia, and the only one reaching a majority of the population. The Zambia Broadcasting Services provides two groups of programs, the Home Service, in English and the seven national Zambian languages, and the General Service, which is mostly in English, with a bit of programming in Bemba, Nyanja, and, until 1980, Shona an…
Introductory Remarks on African Humanities
This issue of the African Studies Review is devoted to research in the African humanities. The appearance of new approaches to the study of literary texts, oral traditions, and the popular arts has inspired us to assemble this collection. Recently, the African humanities have been neglected as an important area in which new empirical and theoretical advances have been made for the study of oral texts, art, and performance.The articles in this col…
Allegorical Speculation in an Oral Society: The Tabwa Narrative Tradition
Discourse and Its Disguises: The Interpretation of African Oral Texts
Allegorical Speculation in an Oral Society: The Tabwa Narrative Tradition
Whose Africa Is It, Anyway? Or, What Exactly Is Skip Gates Signifyin
Asserting/Inventing Traditions on the Luapula: The Lunda Mutomboko Festival
Last Grave at Dimbaza
The Tabwa Context: Mature Shifting of Frames and Adolescent Assertion
A collection and analysis of the oral narrative traditions of northern Zambia, this innovative book integrates audio and video recordings into the text. Robert Cancel’s critical interpretation, meanwhile, makes his work a much-needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies dealing with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, ref…
Telling Tales While Keeping Secrets: Two Lunda Storytelling Sessions
A collection and analysis of the oral narrative traditions of northern Zambia, this innovative book integrates audio and video recordings into the text. Robert Cancel’s critical interpretation, meanwhile, makes his work a much-needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies dealing with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, ref…
Writing Oral Narrative: The Role and Description of Self in Recording Living Traditions
A collection and analysis of the oral narrative traditions of northern Zambia, this innovative book integrates audio and video recordings into the text. Robert Cancel’s critical interpretation, meanwhile, makes his work a much-needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies dealing with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, ref…
Conclusion: Lessons from Frozen Moments
A collection and analysis of the oral narrative traditions of northern Zambia, this innovative book integrates audio and video recordings into the text. Robert Cancel’s critical interpretation, meanwhile, makes his work a much-needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies dealing with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, ref…
Bisa Storytelling: The Politics of Hunting, Beer-Drinks, and Elvis
A collection and analysis of the oral narrative traditions of northern Zambia, this innovative book integrates audio and video recordings into the text. Robert Cancel’s critical interpretation, meanwhile, makes his work a much-needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies dealing with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, ref…
Storytelling in Northern Zambia: Theory, Method, Practice and Other Necessary Fictions
A collection and analysis of the oral narrative traditions of northern Zambia, this innovative book integrates audio and video recordings into the text. Robert Cancel’s critical interpretation, meanwhile, makes his work a much-needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies dealing with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, ref…
The rogue in African literature: Trickster or pícaro
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