{"id":368,"date":"2022-11-18T09:18:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T08:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.phil.hhu.de\/ctsdus\/?p=368"},"modified":"2022-11-21T20:45:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T19:45:41","slug":"indigenous-oral-performance-the-aesthetics-documentation-and-translation-of-ghanaian-dirges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.phil.hhu.de\/ctsdus\/2022\/11\/18\/indigenous-oral-performance-the-aesthetics-documentation-and-translation-of-ghanaian-dirges\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"has-link-color wp-block-heading wp-elements-1\" style=\"font-size:1.2rem\">As translators, folklorists, literary scholars and academics, we continue to grapple with documeting, translating and studying indigenous orature &#8211; be it their textual, oral and\/or performance aspects. In the context of our seminar, <em>Demarginalising Orature: Translating Minor Forms into the Digital Age,<\/em> we present the guest lecture, &#8220;Indigenous Oral Performance: The Aesthetics, Documentation and Translation of Ghanaian Dirges.&#8221; <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.phil.hhu.de\/ctsdus\/files\/2022\/11\/Gh-funeral-dirge-performance4-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.phil.hhu.de\/ctsdus\/files\/2022\/11\/Gh-funeral-dirge-performance4-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.phil.hhu.de\/ctsdus\/files\/2022\/11\/Gh-funeral-dirge-performance4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.phil.hhu.de\/ctsdus\/files\/2022\/11\/Gh-funeral-dirge-performance4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.phil.hhu.de\/ctsdus\/files\/2022\/11\/Gh-funeral-dirge-performance4.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-link-color wp-block-heading wp-elements-2\" style=\"font-size:1.2rem\">We shall engage our guest speaker, <a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.knust.edu.gh\/staff\/dirsearch\/profile\/areas-of-interest\/4811a88967d1.html\">Dr. Confidence Sanka<\/a>, in issues bordering on the performance, documentation and translation of Ghanaian funeral songs or chants (aka dirges). <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-link-color wp-block-heading wp-elements-3\" style=\"font-size:1.2rem\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.knust.edu.gh\/staff\/dirsearch\/profile\/areas-of-interest\/4811a88967d1.html\">Dr. Sanka<\/a> is a senior lecturer at the Department of English, Kwame Nkrumah University of&nbsp; Science and Technology (Kumasi, Ghana), where he teaches among other things African oral literature, Communication Skills, and Anglophone literatures of various periods.&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-link-color wp-block-heading wp-elements-4\" style=\"font-size:1.2rem\">Please save the date!  <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:1.2rem\"><strong>Date<\/strong>: Thursday, 1st December, 2022.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:1.2rem\"><strong>Time:<\/strong> 10:30 AM.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:1.2rem\"><strong>Venue<\/strong>: HHU D\u00fcsseldorf, Room 23.21.U1.72 OR Webex. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:1.2rem\">For the Webex link, please write to: CTS_dus@hhu.de<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As translators, folklorists, literary scholars and academics, we continue to grapple with documeting, translating and studying indigenous orature &#8211; be it their textual, oral and\/or performance aspects. 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