The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
World Literature in Translation
ISBN-10
0520379802
ISBN-13
9780520379800
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 19th, 2021
Print length
168 Pages
Weight
154 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 12.80 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticismAnthropology
Ksh 2,350.00
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A dynamic translation of the timeless African epic. The feats of the hero Mwindo are glorified in this epic work, sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Beautifully structured and richly poetic, the epic is in prose form, interspersed with song and proverbs in verse. As an example of the classic tradition of oral folk literature, the tale provides profound insights into the social structure, values, and cosmology of this African people.
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