Xhosa oral poetry : aspects of a Black South African tradition /

Xhosa oral poetry : aspects of a Black South African tradition /

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Author / Creator:Opland, Jeff, 1943-
Imprint:Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Description:xii, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge studies in oral and literate culture 7
Subject:
Folk poetry, Xhosa -- History and criticism.
Folk poetry, Xhosa.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/582639
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ISBN:0521241138
Notes:Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 272-291.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Documentary perspectives
  • 2. A complex tradition
  • 3. The imbongi
  • 4. Four imbongi
  • 5. Eulogy and ritual
  • 6. Oral poetics and oral noetics
  • 7. Poetry in print
  • 8. Change in the tradition
  • References
  • Indexes

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