Yoruba Fiction, Orature, and Culutre: Oyekan Owomoyela and African Literature & th eYoruba Experience

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List of Tables and Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Adebayo Oyebade and Toyin Falola

Part I. Orature as Literature

1. Nigerian Contemporary Dramatists and the Art of Court Praise Singing
Akíntúnde Akínyemí

2. Transmission of Scientific Knowledge in Yoruba Oral Literature

Tunde Adegbola

3. Orality in Yorùbá Art Historiography: The Study of Oriki Egungun Abidogun of Oke-Igbo Olawole Famule

4. Odolaye Aremu as a Partisan Poet: Artistic Sophistication, Ideological Clarity and Performance Passion Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah

5. Orature as Source for Reconstructing Heroes’ Dress in Ancient Ile-Ife

Tunde M. Akinwumi

6. The Enduring Legacy of Yorùbá Orature: Ethnographic Finds and Adamu-Orisa Ritual Performance Ademola Omobewaji Dasylva

7. Verbal Ebullience in Yorùbá Proverbs Bernth Lindfors

Yoruba Fiction, Orature, and Culture

8. Beyond the Literal to the Master Speech: Proverbs in Condolences

Rachael O. Béllò

9. Culture, Meaning, and Proverbs

Adélékè Adéékó ..

10. Proverbs as Names in Yorùbá: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal

Harrison Adéníyì

11. Owomoyela and the Modernist Inflections of Yorùbá Proverbs: The Critique of Aesthetic Inclusions
Aderemi Raji-Oyelade

II Language, Texts, and Translation

12. Politics and Proverbs in Selected Yorùbá Political Novels

Lérè Adéyẹmí

13. Text and Inter-Textuality in Contemporary Yorùbá Literary Works

Arinpe Adejumo

14. From Orature to Literature: The Dynamics of Translating Fagunwa and Faleti
Olayinka Agbetuyi

15. On Translatability: The Loss of Humor and Laughter in Akínwùmí Ìsọlá’s “Wôn Pè Mí Jêrìí”
Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith

16. Orísun FM Radio Station and the Reclamation of Yorùbá Language Adéolá Adijat Fáléye

17. Ààló: Historical and Cultural Analysis of Yorùbá Folklore

Julius Adekunle

18. The Role of Proverbs and Idioms in Yorùbá Dictionary-Making

Yiwọlá Awóyalé

19. Yoruban Cultural Grammar in Ibadan’s Urban Spaces: Reflections on Toyin Falola’s A Mouth Sweeter than Salt Aaron Reynolds

III. Perspectives on Culture

20. Yorùbá Culture in Contemporary America

Adebayo Oyebade

21. Yorùbá Traditional Religion and Art: An Epistemological Study Danoye Oguntola-Laguda

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22. The Context of Agemo Festival in Ijebuland

Jubril Adesegun Dosumu

23. Òrìsà Elegun Sango and the Diversity of Spirit Possession

Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe and Adepeju O. Johnson-Bashua

24. Caste System Among the Okun-Yorùbá: The Owe Example

Ilesanmi Akanmidu Paul

25. Agbelege: A Yorùbá Verbal Art

Deji Medubi

26. Yorùbá Jurisprudence and the Normativity Controversy: Beyond the Boundary Between Fiction and Orature
Idowu William

27. Judicial Cross-Examination in Yorùbá Culture: A Philosophical Critique
Moses Òkè

Contributors

Index