Oral literature in Africa

• Tác giả: Ruth H Finnegan
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1906924720
• ISBN-13: 978-1906924737
• ISBN-13: 978-1906924744
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 398.2 Folk literature
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2012
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (xlii, 568 pages) : , illustrations.
• Bộ sưu tập: Xã hội, kinh tế, luật
• ID: 156668
• Chủ đề: 1. Folk literature, African--History and criticism; 2. Folk literature; 3. Oral tradition--Africa

Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-542) and index.

Tóm tắt

"This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images, and an updated bibliography, as well as original chapters on poetry, prose, 'drum language' and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa."--Back cover.