- Title
- Oral literature in Africa
- Creator
- Kaschula, Russell H
- Subject
- Folk literature -- Study and teaching -- Africa
- Subject
- Oral tradition -- Africa
- Subject
- Folklore and education -- Africa
- Subject
- Books -- Africa -- Reviews
- Date Issued
- 2013
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- article
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/59355
- Identifier
- vital:27563
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2012.756804
- Description
- I have in my possession a first edition, hard copy of Ruth Finnegan’s quintessential work, Oral Literature in Africa. It has a yellow cover, preserved by a plastic sheathe, it is a little frayed around the edges and has that old, musty library smell about it. I love and treasure this book. It is dedicated by Professor Finnegan ‘[t]o all my teachers’. Professor Finnegan is indeed one of my teachers. I properly met Ruth Finnegan at the second International Society for Oral Literature (ISOLA) conference in 1998, which I hosted at the University of Cape Town. She gave a keynote address which included reference to her seminal work and the future of oral literary studies. She has continually influenced our work as researchers following in her footsteps: Isidore Okpewho, Harold Scheub, Abiola Irele, Graham Furniss, Elizabeth Gunner, Karin Barber, Isobel Hofmeyr, John Foley, Olayibi Yai, Edgard Sienaert, Brian Street, Noverino Canonici, Mark Turin, Daniela Merolla, Jan Jansen, Jeff Opland, and many others; some younger, some older, some living, some departed, scholars influenced by this great and humble intellectual and her body of work.
- Format
- 5 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of African Cultural Studies
- Relation
- Russell H. Kaschula (2013) Oral Literature in Africa, Journal of African Cultural Studies, 25:1, 141-144, DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2012.756804
- Relation
- Journal of African Cultural Studies 25 vol. 1 no. 141 144 2013 1469-9346
- Rights
- Taylor & Francis
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.)
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