Dokument: Revisiting Formalism from a West African Perspective: Konkomba Folktales across Generations and Cultural Contexts
| Titel: | Revisiting Formalism from a West African Perspective: Konkomba Folktales across Generations and Cultural Contexts | |||||||
| URL für Lesezeichen: | https://docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de/servlets/DocumentServlet?id=66407 | |||||||
| URN (NBN): | urn:nbn:de:hbz:061-20240722-104528-1 | |||||||
| Kollektion: | Dissertationen | |||||||
| Sprache: | Englisch | |||||||
| Dokumententyp: | Wissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeiten » Dissertation | |||||||
| Medientyp: | Text | |||||||
| Autor: | Tidorchibe, Emmanuel Tasun [Autor] | |||||||
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| Beitragende: | Prof. Dr. Neumann, Birgit [Gutachter] Prof. Dr. Pirker, Eva Ulrike [Gutachter] | |||||||
| Stichwörter: | Anglophone Studies | |||||||
| Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: | 800 Literatur » 890 Literatur in anderen Sprachen | |||||||
| Beschreibung: | This dissertation explores form (in formalism) from an Afrocentric perspective by employing an oral performance-sensitive new formalist criticism of folktales of the Konkomba people of northern Ghana. Among other things, the research interrogates, by teasing out classical and contemporary formalistic thoughts, the applicability of Global North concepts of form (and formalist approaches generally) in predominantly orally-based contexts like the one from which Konkomba folktales emerge. It, thus, explores the nature and workings of form in situated oral contexts such as the KKB one in order to ascertain the interactions between form and orality and form and performance. Such an investigation, geared toward formulating an oral performance-sensitive critique and expansion of new formalistic currents, ultimately offers further illuminations on the operations of form and unearths certain structural patterns pointing to similarities and/or differences as well as the core variables inherent in these Konkomba folktales as far as their formal aspects and renditions are concerned. The foregoing, eventually, helps in gaining a better understanding of how various literary, sociocultural, oral, and performance forms contribute to shaping these folktales and the KKB milieu from which they emerge. Above all, such an investigation productively boosts decolonization efforts and detextualizes studies in form – and for that matter formalism. | |||||||
| Lizenz: |  Dieses Werk ist lizenziert unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Lizenz | |||||||
| Fachbereich / Einrichtung: | Philosophische Fakultät » Anglistisches Institut | |||||||
| Dokument erstellt am: | 22.07.2024 | |||||||
| Dateien geändert am: | 22.07.2024 | |||||||
| Promotionsantrag am: | 01.02.2024 | |||||||
| Datum der Promotion: | 13.06.2024 |
