Histories of Errancy
Oral Yoruba b k Texts and Soyinka's ?Abiku
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 9250801 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Douglas M Mccabe (autor correspondente), Douglas McCabe |
| Ano | 2002 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 45-74 |
| Data de publicação | 2002-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Editora | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ral.2002.33.1.45 |
| OpenAlex | W2369825644 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 1 |
| Referências citadas | 8 |
The corpus of written Nigerian literature contains at least thirty works in which àbíkú or ògbánje play some sort of pivotal role. 1 Most are in English, and among them are canonical texts by Tutuola, Achebe, Soyinka, Clark-Bekederemo, Emecheta, and Okri. These àbíkú writings constitute a major tradition within Nigerian literature, so it is surprising that no study has been done which reads them together and orders them historically as such. Indeed, existing studies of àbíkú literature lack any kind of historical perspective. They are limited to thematic and stylistic comparisons of canonical written texts, by-passing the relationship of these texts to oral àbíkú literature, to nonliterary àbíkú discourses, and to the concerns and anxieties surrounding their historical circumstances of composition. Symptomatic of these studies' lack of historical perspective is the reliance of their interpretations upon insufficiently considered accounts of àbíkú. Such accounts (sometimes they are just hasty definitions) often mix facts about àbíkú with facts about ògbánje; represent àbíkú as homogeneous across time and space; fail to distinguish between popular and expert, official and heretical, indigenous and exogenous discourses of àbíkú; assume that the belief in àbíkú has a psychological rather than ontological origin; and hastily appropriate àbíkú to serve as a symbol for present-day, metropolitan concepts and concerns. 2 The upshot of all this has been to establish and encourage a practice of literary exegesis that not only occludes the historicity of àbíkú--its embeddedness in specific times, localities, discourses, concerns, and circumstances that render it inalienably heterogeneous, politicized, and protean--but also occludes, in turn, the historicity of the literature that takes àbíkú as its subject
Archetype · Art · Embeddedness · Epistemology · Historicity (philosophy) · Indigenous · Linguistics · Literature · Negation · Perspective (graphical) · Sociology · Syncretism (linguistics) · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,06 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 1 |