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Oral Literature for Children: Rethinking Orality, Literacy, Performance, and Documentation Practices (Cross/Cultures - Readings in Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English) by Aaron Mushengyezi; ProQuest (Firm) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Oral Literature for Children: Rethinking Orality, Literacy, Performance, and Documentation Practices (Cross/Cultures - Readings in Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English) about?
This book is the first ever major effort to document and study hundreds of texts from an African (Ugandan) oral culture for children - folktales, riddles, and rhymes - and at the same time to make them available in the local languages and to focus on their cultural and national value. The author surveys the history of collecting in Uganda and situates the texts in their broader geographical, historical, socio-cultural and educational setting, including the early collecting efforts of heritage-mi
Who reads Oral Literature for Children: Rethinking Orality, Literacy, Performance, and Documentation Practices (Cross/Cultures - Readings in Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Aaron Mushengyezi; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789042036178
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Orality, Folklore & Mythology, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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