568 pages
English language
Published 2016 by Open Book Publishers.
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"This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images, and an updated bibliography, as well as original chapters on poetry, prose, 'drum language' and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa."--Back cover.
"This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images, and an updated bibliography, as well as original chapters on poetry, prose, 'drum language' and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa."--Back cover.
Subjects
- African Folk literature
- History and criticism
- Oral tradition
- Littérature populaire africaine
- Histoire et critique
- Tradition orale
Places
- Africa
- Afrique