Ideology in Practice

Hausa Poetry as Expositions of Values and Viewpoints

Author: Graham Furniss. Series edited by: Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Norbert Cyffer.

Series: Westafrikanische Studien Volume 9

1995
12 pp. Roman, 245 pp.
Text language(s): English
Format: 160 x 240 mm
520 g
Paperback
€ 34.80

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The author discusses the economic and social constraints upon the writing of poetry and analyzes the ideological processes in modern Hausa poetry in theory. Then he presents a practical analysis of different categories of poetry texts, e.g. praise texts, political and religious texts, behavioural norm texts, and public enlightenment texts.

By doing so he examines in detail the processes whereby texts manifested and intertwined representations of the nature of society – and power relations in particular – deploying also the processes of symbolic creativity in poetic language.

 

Accompanying material:

• Aspects of the Aesthetics of Hausa Verbal Art (ISBN 978-3-89645-264-1)
• Bibliography of Hausa Popular Fiction 1987–2002 (ISBN 978-3-89645-277-1)
• From Oral Literature to Video (ISBN 978-3-89645-579-6)
• Hausa and the Chadic Language Family (ISBN 978-3-927620-36-0)
• Hausa Comparative Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-927620-53-7)
• Narrator as Interpreter (ISBN 978-3-89645-102-6)

Cross-reference:

• Dialoge, Prosa und Liedtexte aus dem Lehrbuch der Hausa-Sprache (ISBN 978-3-89645-007-4)
• Lehrbuch der Hausa-Sprache (ISBN 978-3-89645-006-7)
• Lehrbuch der Hausa-Sprache mit Audio-CD (ISBN 978-3-89645-008-1)

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