Extending Generic Boundaries
Werewere Liking's L'amour-cent-vies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katheryn Wright (0000-0002-6485-9549, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 46-60 |
| Publication date | 2002-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ral.2002.33.2.46 |
| OpenAlex | W2056321987 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
African literature to renew and regenerate its forms as much as the to content expressed by those forms. Indeed, in an interview conducted in 1983, Liking states that it is the forme qui decide de l'efficacite du fond 'the form that determines the efficacy of the content.'1 Her novel Vamour-cent-vies (1988) is a hybrid text that includes numerous genres and stylistic features present in oral traditions: praise-naming, lullaby, allegorical and etiological tales, proverbs, legends, myth, and some of the formal and thematic components of both the epic and the initiation story. In this novel, it is not only the recontextualizaton, adaptation, and reworking of traditional oral materials through the written word that modify these forms, but it is also the relationship that develops between genres that ultimately compels the reader to reexamine his or her preconceptions about the ideological limitations of certain genres in written literature. An author's decision to enlist the services of oral tradition is aestheti
Adaptation (eye) · Art · Content (measure theory) · EPIC · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Mythology · Oral literature · Oral poetry · Oral tradition · Poetry · Politics · Praise · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |