scholarly journals Serialization of Ọbasa’s Poems in The Yorùbá News

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Tolulope Ibikunle
Keyword(s):  
Oral Literature ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Creative Ability

Every newspaper has its form, structure, and pattern. The Yorùbá News published between 1924-1945 was not an exception, as it comprised of different contents ranging from the editorial opinion to home news, gossip, adverts, and serialization of different forms of narratives. D.A. Ọbasa, the publisher ́ of The Yorùbá News, also published many works of poetry. Ọbasa started the publication of excerpts of his poems in The Yoruba News under the column “Àwọn Akéwì.” Serializing these poems, therefore, means issuing them regularly and consecutively in diferent editions of the newspaper. In the various scholarly engagements with Ọbasa’s works, little or no attention has been given to the serialization of his poems in Te Yorùbá News. The focus of this easy therefore is to fill this gap by highlighting and documenting the serialized poems of Ọbasa in Te Yorùbá News. Trough intertextuality theory, the easy aims at appraising how Ọbasa transfer his knowledge of the Yorùbá oral literature to his readers through his application of oral poetic form from his serialized poems. Tis work will therefore dwell on Intertextuality and its influence on the works of Ọbasa, which will enable us to discuss his creative ability as a cultural activist.

scholarly journals Incantation as a Means of Communication in Yorùbá Land: ‘Eégún Aláré’ as a Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Opoola BolanleTajudeen
Keyword(s):  
Oral Literature ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Verbal Art ◽  
Western Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
Negative Form

Yorùbá oral literature is of three categories namely chant, song and recitation. This paper, therefore, focused on incantation as a means of communication among the masquerades in Yorùbá land with its data drawn from “Eégún Aláré”, a Yorùbá novel. Incantation is a combination of carefully arranged speeches or words in a poetic form and its use makes things work miraculously as the users wish or words that make human wishes come to reality with immediate effect. Before Christianity and Islam gained prominence in the Yorùbá society, Alárìnjó masquerades were among the well known traditional public entertainers and that during performances, incantation was often used to know who is who among the masquerades. However, Christianity and Islam have made the use of incantation, as a means of communication during masquerade performances, a thing of the past and what used to be a family profession in the past is no longer so because members of the Ọ̀jẹ̀ families who were in charge of this cultural profession in the past have now been converted to either Christianity or Islam or have been negatively influenced by Western education. This study nullifies the communication chain as the person to whom incantation is directed does not need to understand the language of the person that uses the incantation as the feed back would be the effect of the incantation in positive or negative form. The essence of this paper is to promote Yoruba oral literature through formal documentation of incantation as a Yoruba linguistic verbal art.

Rhythmic structures in French Sign Language (LSF) nursery rhymes

2000 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Blondel ◽  
Christopher Miller
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
First Language ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Rhythmic Structure ◽  
Sign Languages ◽  
Deaf Adults ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
The Difference

Research over the past three decades has brought attention to various ways in which linguistic structures are exploited to build poetic form in sign languages. These include recurring patterns of phonological elements (similar to rhyme, alliteration or assonance) that play a role in the structure of verses and strophes, as well as uses of metaphor and modifications of the form of signs that contribute to an overall fluidity of movement distinct from non-poetic signed discourse. In this paper we concentrate our attention on the role of rhythmic structure and the ways in which it interacts with syntactic structure to build poetic form. Our data consist of nursery rhymes, either original LSF creations or adaptations from French nursery rhymes, which were composed by Deaf adults and children. This type of poetry, as a genre of oral literature, is essentially performance-related and is highly variable in form. Despite the difference in modality (oral vs. gestural), LSF and French nursery rhymes show similar characteristics (repetition of phonological units, non-significant gesture, similar subject matter etc.), and rhythmic structure is central to their overall structure. This paper isolates rhythmic templates in LSF nursery rhymes via the analysis of accentual prosody (speed, intensity and manner of movement) and compares the nursery rhymes with an equivalent corpus of non-poetic performances. This research is relevant to the question of the universality of infant rhythmic structure and the importance of nursery rhymes in first language acquisition.

The Cambridge Introduction to Poetic Form

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Hurley ◽  
Michael ONeill
Keyword(s):  
Poetic Form

SWAZI ORAL LITERATURE, ECO-CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL APOCALYPSE

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enongene Mirabeau Sone
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Western Concept ◽  
Critical Resource ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Conservation Of Biodiversity

The main objective of this paper is to show how oral literature is engaged by Swazis with regards to environmental sustainability. It demonstrates the relationship between nature and culture as reflected in Swazi oral literature and how indigenous knowledge embedded in this literature can be used to expand the concepts of eco-literature and eco-criticism. The paper argues that the indigenous environmental expertise among the Swazi people, encapsulated in their oral literature, can serve as a critical resource base for the process of developing a healthy environment. Furthermore, the paper contends that eco-criticism, which is essentially a Western concept, can benefit by drawing inspiration from the indigenous knowledge contained in Swazi culture and expressed in their oral literature. The paper concludes by recommending the need to strengthen traditional and customary knowledge and practices by protecting and recognising the values of such systems in the conservation of biodiversity for sustainable development.

The interpretation of loneliness in Uzbek and world proverbs

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-167
Author(s):  
Mekhriniso Rajabovna Kilicheva
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
The People ◽  
Social Expression ◽  
Life Issues

As being the oldest and most widely used genres of oral literature, proverbs are expressions of the ethical, spiritual, moral, and social expression of the people, which have been tested in centuries-old life experiences, and the wise conclusions of the people, which provide accurate and accurate solutions to life issues.

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