The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature
Peter Seitel
The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that depends upon and facilitates dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya 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. Making a controversial claim that an heroic age, similar to that of Ancient Greece, existed in Sub-Saharan Africa, this work will intrigue anyone who works in
oral literature and narrative.
Book 22 of the Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics series
- ISBN: 019511700X
- ISBN-13: 9780195117004
- Author : Peter Seitel
- Language : English
- Format: Hardcover - Search for other formats
- Publication Date: 3/1/1999
- Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
- Price ($AUD): $226.95
- Usual Dispatch Time: 7 - 10 days
- Please note that all prices are in Australian dollars
- Some titles may be subject to availability