Playful Blasphemies

Postproverbials as Archetypes of Modernity in Yorùbá Culture

von Aderemi Raji-Oyelade

168 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book is a discourse in transformative paremiology, that is the critique of the ascendancy of new sets of contemporary proverbs of (post)modernist temper in African culture. Using the Yoruba as African example, it highlights the essential blasphemous and deconstructive nature of the transformed proverb, otherwise named as postproverbials, in comparison with the relatively fixed form of the traditional proverb.
In 'Playful Blasphemies', Raji-Oyelade brings inventive theorising and original analysis to the understanding of the radical proverb text. This is a provocative and painstaking work in African studies and popular culture.

• Reihe: LuKA - Studien zu Literaturen und Kunst Afrikas
• ISBN: 9783868213805
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.06.2012
• Genre: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Sonstige Sprachen, Sonstige Literaturen
• Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier