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Titolo |
African tales / / compiled by Harold Scheub |
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Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-26982-8 |
9786612269820 |
0-299-20943-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages) : illustrations |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-286). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Story and Storyteller -- 1 Kwaku Ananse and Aso -- 2 Akenda Mbani -- 3 The Cock -- 4 Tale of a Lantern -- 5 The Favored Daughter -- 6 The African -- 7 Dschemil and Dschemila -- 8 Half-a-Cock -- 9 The Boy and the Girl -- 10 Mbewa and Nkerma -- 11 The Twin Brothers -- 12 Samba Gueladio Diegui -- 13 Fountinndouha -- 14 The Man and the Leopard -- 15 The Two Girls -- 16 The Fleeing Girls and the Rock -- 17 The Old Woman -- 18 Thadhellala -- 19 The Cunning Young Woman -- 20 The Little Wise Woman -- 21 The Old Woman, Her Sons, and the Python -- 22 Five Dead Men Attend a Dance -- 23 The Hole in the Tree -- 24 The Jackal and the Little Antelope -- 25 Andrianòro -- 26 The Hare, the Hyena, and the Lioness's Cave -- 27 Na Kimanaueze -- 28 The Hyenas and the Sage -- 29 Kachirambe -- 30 The Girls Who Went to Have Teeth Made for Them -- 31 Nwampfundla -- 32 The Young Man Who Was Carried Off by a Lion -- 33 The Magic Mirror -- 34 Nyajak -- 35 The Sultan's Wife -- 36 Monyohe -- 37 The Physician's Son and the King of the Snakes -- 38 Untombinde, the Tall Girl -- 39 The Man Who Passed the Night in the Middle of the Sea -- 40 The Hare and the Lion -- 41 Spider -- 42 In Quest of a Wife -- 43 Children of the Anthill -- 44 The King and the Kini-kini Bird -- 45 Untombi- yaphansi -- 46 Combecantsini -- Notes -- Bibliography. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The latest work from Harold Scheub, one of the world's leading |
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scholars of African folktales, is the broadest collection yet assembled with tales from the entire continent of Africa, north to south. It brings together mythic, fantastic, and coming-of-age tales, some transcribed more than a hundred years ago, others dating to modern-day Africa. Scheub includes the work of storytellers from major African language groups, as well as many storytellers whose work is not often heard outside of Africa. This anthology offers a classroom-ready collection that should appeal to any scholar of African literature and culture. Realizing that these tales are part of a dying art, Scheub writes for the inner ear in everyone, bringing an oral tradition to life in written form. |
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