Dairi Stories and Pakpak Storytelling: A Storytelling Tradition from the North Sumatran Rainforest

ISBN-13: 9789067183871 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 364 str.

Clara Brakel-Papenhuijzen

Opis

This study of traditional literature in Pakpak-Dairi, an endangered North Sumatran language, is based on written and oral versions of stories. Discussing the views of well-known scholars of Sumatran languages, the book includes the texts of seven stories which were collected in North Sumatra by the well-known linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk (1824-1894) and are kept in Leiden University Library. The book also contains a story performed in the village of Sukarame by Sonang Sitakar, who may well have been one of the last Pakpak-Dairi storytellers. Presenting unique information on an endangered literary genre from North Sumatra.