The Powers of Genre : Interpreting Haya Oral Literature
by
Peter Seitel
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
ISBN-10
019511700X
ISBN-13
9780195117004
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 8th, 1999
Print length
264 Pages
Weight
567 grams
Dimensions
17.30 x 22.50 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
linguisticsLiterary studies: generalFolklore, myths & legends
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This volume describes a method for interpreting oral literature that enables dialogue between insiders and outsiders of a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya (from Northwestern Tanzania) proverbs, folktales, and heroic verse.
The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that enables dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya (from Northwestern Tanzania) 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. He makes a controversial claim that an heroic age, similar to that of Ancient Greece, existed in Sub-Saharan Africa. The work should interest anyone who works in oral literature and narrative -- folklorists, literary critics, anthropologists, linguists, and Africanists.
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