Ethnosensitive Dimensions of African Oral Literature

Ethnosensitive Dimensions of  African Oral Literature: Igbo Perspectives
is a collection of nineteen essays spanning all genres of African Oral
literature, from the poetic genre to the rhetorical genre. Part One of
the book is introductory, and includes three essays that are of a
general kind, touching all aspects of the genres, while Part Two
includes six essays concerned with the poetic genre. Part Three, made up
of two essays and concern the prose genre while Part Four, of two
essays, examines the drama genre. Part Five, made up of three essays,
addresses the rhetorical genre, and Part Six has three essays that cut
across all the genres. The contributions examine the implications of
ethnocentric imperatives of oral literature in relation to nationalistic
demands.