African Novels and the Question of Orality

Name: African Novels and the Question of Orality
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ISBN: 9780253331014

ISBN-10: 0253331013

ISBN-13: 9780253331014

Edition: 1992

Authors: Eileen M. Julien

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Eileen Julien demonstrates that the search for oral origins in African literature is a quest for African authenticity. In a critique and revision of the conceptual category of orality as it has been understood and used by scholars, Julien stresses the transformation of narrative genres as an index of sociopolitical relations and authorial vision. African Novels and the Question of Orality posits that the adaptation of oral narrative genres is not a necessary feature of the novel but is, rather, an arbitrary one that expresses an imaginative solution to problems of aesthetic and ideological dimension. Julien argues that authors adapt such genres to serve narrative goals and social and…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/22/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface



Of Origins and Orality



The Search for Continuity and Authenticity



An Impoverished Paradigm



The Arbitrariness and Specificity of Form



The Importance of Genre


Epic



A Dubious Heroism: Epic Modalities in L'Etrange Destin de Wangrin



The Democratization of Epic: Les Bouts de bois de Dieu


Initiation Story



Authority Reconstructed: Le Regard du roi



An Ambiguous Quest: La Carte d'identite


Fable



"The Emperors New Clothes": The Lens of Fable in La Vie et demie



"The Mouth That Did Not Eat Itself": From Object of Representation to Medium in Devil on the Cross



Toward New Readings of the Novel


Notes


Works Cited


Index