Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Help

Ikhide,
Ikenna Kamalu's doctoral research (which I supervised)was on that
topic. He has a couple of publications on that, also. Your friend may
wish to get in touch with Ikenna, who currently teaches at UniPH,
through this email: <cikamalu@yahoo.co.uk>.
Regards.
Obododimma.

On 2/3/14, kenneth harrow <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:
> hi ikhide
> i can't really help very much; i don't agree with the proposition here
> about oral literature or euro lit, not in the way it is framed in the
> quote below. "oral lit' becomes an invented category when it is deployed
> more or less ideologically and not with the careful construction of
> those who study it. one book that might help frame this understanding is
> eileen julien's African Novels and the Question of Orality.
> ken
>
> On 2/2/14 9:57 PM, Ikhide wrote:
>>
>> A friend is working on a research thesis, "Magical realism as a
>> decolonizing tool in Ben Okri's narrative." He has asked me if I could
>> refer him to books that cover or relate to this topic. His major
>> question is, "where has oral tradition in Nigerian Literature gone?"
>> So he is looking for nooks that cover oral tradition or use oral
>> tradition in Nigerian narratives,
>> employ myths, riddles, aphorisms in telling stories... His argument
>> is along these lines, I think... "Amos Tutuola's publication of The
>> Palmwine Drinkard (1952) most Nigerian authors have abandoned African
>> folkloric narrative style. The closest to that kind of narrative is
>> Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1991) which was based on the African
>> Abiku myth. Contemporary Nigerian authors like Chimamanda Adichie,
>> Biyi Bandele-Thomas, Chris Abani and Nnedi Okoroafor swung back to
>> what Ngugi Wa Thiongo termed, in his essay, "Afro-European
>> Literature", that is, "literature written by Africans in European
>> Languages." They have, in their novels, refused to blend "the factual
>> and the fantastic, the traditional and the technological landscapes"
>> present in a postcolonial setting (Peters, 1993:23)."
>>
>> Anyway, any recommendation on books, I am sure he will greatly
>> appreciate. I hope I hear from some of you folks..
>>
>> Many thanks in advance!
>> - Ikhide
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>>
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