Dagara Verbal Art: An African Tradition

ISBN-13: 9781433147043 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 274 str.

Paschal Kyoore

Opis

Dagara Verbal Art examines verbal art among the Dagara people of West Africa.

Recenzje

«Dagara Verbal Art is a comprehensive presentation of Dagara folklore. In addition to analyzing and interpreting the folklore, it explores the relationships among various genres: how, for example, folktales relate to riddles and puzzles, how riddling precedes the telling of folktales, and how songs func-tion in the tales. A scholarly study that is readable, engaging, and peppered with interesting and memorable anecdotes, Da-gara Verbal Art is suitable for general readership and courses on folklore.»
(Joseph L. Mbele, Western Folklore, Volume 77, Number 1/2018)

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Introduction - Wit, Humor, and Satire in Dagara Tales - Songs as Mode of Communication within Tales - The Female Character in Tales - The Supernatural as a Motif in Tales - The Didactic and Moralizing in Dagara Tales - Dirges, Praise Songs, and Praise Singers - The Female Praise Singer - Verbal Art of the Dagara Xylophonist - Popular Songs as Verbal Art - The Art of Speech-Making - The Art of Proverb Usage - The Art of Riddling Riddles and Other Forms of Orature - Conclusion.

O autorze

Paschal Kyoore earned his Ph.D. from Ohio State University and his D.E.A from the Université de Bordeaux III. He is currently Professor at Gustavus Adolphus College. His publications include The African and Caribbean Historical Novel in French: A Quest for Identity, Folktales: Dagara of West Africa, and Dagara Folk Tales: Ghana and Burkina Faso, among others.