The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 22, Band 22) - Hardcover

Seitel, Peter

 
9780195117004: The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 22, Band 22)

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The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that depends upon and facilitates dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with LiveLy examples from Haya proverbs, folktales, and heroic verse. He then focuses on a single epic ballad to demonstrate, among other things, why stanzas need not rhyme, and how significance needs time in oral poetry and narrative. Making a controversial claim that an heroic age, similar to that of Ancient Greek, I existed in Sub-Saharan Africa, this work will intrigue anyone who works in oral literature and narrative.

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