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The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa.

Publication: African Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
The Oral and Beyond. Doing Things with Words in Africa. Ruth Finnegan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 320 pp.

Ruth Finnegan's body of work in the field of African oral literature is foundational, and this book stands as another vital contribution, one which no scholar in the field will be able to ignore. A collection of variously updated older essays, framed by a new preface and epilogue, this work is overtly retrospective of the history of the study of oral literature in Africa, yet fundamentally targeted, as becomes evident in the book's final sections, towards assisting, if not affecting, a paradigm shift in the study and conception of the oral in Africa.

Arguing that the study of African oral literature has expanded so much since her foundational Oral Literature in Africa (1970) that she could not possibly address such changes comprehensively, Finnegan's expressed intent at the outset...

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