African tales / / compiled by Harold Scheub

• Pubblicazione: Madison, Wis. : , : University of Wisconsin Press, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 398.2/096
• Soggetto topico: Tales - Africa
• Altri autori: ScheubHarold
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-286).
• Sommario/riassunto: The latest work from Harold Scheub, one of the world's leading 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: African tales
• ISBN: 1-282-26982-8; 9786612269820; 0-299-20943-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781834503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II