"Short Time to Stay": Comments on Time, Literature, and Oral Performance |
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abstracted actual performance actually realized African Literature African oral literature Amoafo Anthropology audience Babalola background Banyanga Belinga Ben-Amos Benin ceremonies chants collections context conventions coordination dance Dell Hymes Dennis Tedlock depends Dinka drummers Dumestre Edmund Leach Egungun epic example existence expert fact Folklore formal Fulani further genre gifts Hausa hunter Ijaw Indiana University initiation involved Kabyle Kaguru kind large number lengthy Limba story-telling linear text Linguistics literary event Literature and Oral mances Mandinka musical Mwindo Mwindo epic narration narratives nature Nigeria Nuer occasion Opland oral forms oral literary forms oral performance oral pieces oral poems oral poetry organization Ozidi Saga palm wine pattern people's activities perhaps prose published questions recitation rhythms Rureke Seitel sense sequence Seydou social sometimes songs spatial specific stories story-telling sessions take place tale for laughter temporal time-reckoning village West African WOLFF MEMORIAL LECTURE written literature written text Xhosa Yoruba