The powers of genre : interpreting Haya oral literature /

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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 ball...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Seitel, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series:Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics ; 22.
Subjects:
Haya (African people) > Folklore.
Folk literature, Haya > History and criticism.
Oral tradition > Tanzania.
Discourse analysis, Narrative > Tanzania.
Haya language.
Haya (Peuple d'Afrique) > Folklore.
Haya (Langue)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Folk literature, Haya.
Haya (African people)
Oral tradition.
Mondelinge literatuur.
Haya (volk)
Tanzania.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Folklore.
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