Author: Gerhard Lindblom
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Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Kamba Folklore ... with Liguistic, Ethnographical and Comparative Notes
Author: Gerhard Lindblom
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Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Kamba Folklore
Author: Gerhard Lindblom
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Category : Kamba (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Category : Kamba (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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An Annotated Collection of Folktales from African (Nigeria) Students in the United States
Author: Ayodele Ogundipe
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Category : Tales
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Category : Tales
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island
Author: Lee Haring
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1805110071
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected colony to an overseas department of France. The author’s innovation is to read ethnographic researches as play scripts—to see printed folktales as accounts of live performances. One storyteller after another comments symbolically on what it is like to be a formerly colonised population. Storytelling women, in particular, combine diverse plots and characters to create traditional-sounding stories, which could not have been predicted from the African, Malagasy, Indian, and European traditions coexisting in Mayotte. Haring’s account shows them to be particularly skilled at irony and ambiguity, conveying both submissive and rebellious attitudes in their tales. He makes Mayotte storytelling accessible to a new, English-speaking audience and demonstrates that traditional storytellers in those years were preserving, but also critiquing, their inherited social order in a changing world. Their creative intentions, cultural influences and widely different narrative styles constitute Mayotte’s system of the arts of the word. Literary specialists, folklore enthusiasts, and people who like reading stories will find much to appreciate in this engaging and sophisticated book.
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1805110071
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected colony to an overseas department of France. The author’s innovation is to read ethnographic researches as play scripts—to see printed folktales as accounts of live performances. One storyteller after another comments symbolically on what it is like to be a formerly colonised population. Storytelling women, in particular, combine diverse plots and characters to create traditional-sounding stories, which could not have been predicted from the African, Malagasy, Indian, and European traditions coexisting in Mayotte. Haring’s account shows them to be particularly skilled at irony and ambiguity, conveying both submissive and rebellious attitudes in their tales. He makes Mayotte storytelling accessible to a new, English-speaking audience and demonstrates that traditional storytellers in those years were preserving, but also critiquing, their inherited social order in a changing world. Their creative intentions, cultural influences and widely different narrative styles constitute Mayotte’s system of the arts of the word. Literary specialists, folklore enthusiasts, and people who like reading stories will find much to appreciate in this engaging and sophisticated book.
Nkundo Mongo Tales
Author: Brunhilde Biebuyck
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Folklore Preprint Series
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History
Author: Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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African Folklore
Author: Richard Mercer Dorson
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Dictionary Catalog
Author: Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
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The Bantu Bibliography
Author: Jouni Maho
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Category : Bantu languages
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Category : Bantu languages
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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