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 | | The Powers of Genre: Interpreting Haya Oral Literature (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 22) by Peter Seitel ISBN-10: 019511700X ISBN-10: 0-19-511700-X ISBN-13: 9780195117004 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-511700-4 Hardcover 1999-03-25 Oxford University Press, USA Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description 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. | ||