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The Oromo Eschatology: The Prophecy Of Areeroo Boosaroo, Narrated By Borbor Bulee And Guyyoo Dambii
2005
This article provides the first ethnographic account of prophetic text and poetry among the Borana. It was ethnographically constructed by the join efforts of an indigenous anthropologist, an africanist anthropologist, and a Borana oral historian.
ANALISIS FUNGSI MITOS KURI DAN PASAI BAGI MASYARAKAT ASLI TELUK WONDAMA
2018
This paper aims to describe the function of Kuri and Pasai myths for the native people of Wondama Bay. The mythical function itself as part of oral literature aims to enrich the understanding of the indigenous people of Wondama Bay about its oral literature. Myths Kuri and Pasai is the cultural result of the people of Wondama Bay which continues to be passed down from generation to generation. In the function of the Myth of Kuri and Pasai there are three functions, among others: 1) aesthetic function, in the aesthetic function there are two functions such as the function of the symbol and didactic function, 2) the function religiou, 3) the social function.
“Sometimes I Wanda/Who Will Translate/Dis/Fe de Inglish?” Strategies for Transcribing Jamaican Creole in the Dub Poems of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Be…
2019
International audience; The question of dialect has always been central to Caribbean literature, and more specifically to poetry. In a (post)colonial context of diglossia between standard English and Jamaican Creole, and of a strong hierarchy between oral and scribal forms of linguistic and literary expression, the mere possibility of writing ‘real’ literature in Patwa was severely contested until quite recently. Yet, an increasing number of poets have experimented with Creole over the course of the last century and have amply demonstrated that it is a legitimate medium for poetic and literary expression.This paper looks at various strategies employed by Anglo-Jamaican dub poets Linton Kwes…