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Basotho Oral Poetry At the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century /

This book contains a major research into, and deep investigation of Basotho language oral poetry in Lesotho at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The classical form, the dithoko, which was inspired by tribal wars or battles fought by the Basotho, is explored fully, but the absence of wars, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tšiu, M. W. (Moruti William), 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Ilorin [Nigeria] : Kwara State University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Pressures on the oral poetry of the Basotho
  • Basotho oral poetry : performance
  • The subject-matter
  • Migration of the oral genres
  • Conclusion.