Vodun stories of the Fon (Benin)
By: Marjolijn Aalders Grool
Series: Verbal art and documentary literature in African languages -- v. 34 = -- Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen -- Bd. 34; Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen -- Bd. 34.
Publisher: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng; fon
Number of pages: 725
ISBN-13: 9783896457349
Subjects: Fon (African people); Oral tradition; Folklore; Storytelling
Description: Collection of 37 story texts, "gwènùxó," told by 15 performers in three villages of southern Benin, transcribed from recordings made April-June 1976.
Notes: "The analyses of the [storytelling] performance itself are described in full in the book 'Verbal Art of the Fon (Benin)' (Aalders Grool 2013)."--Page [11].

Includes bibliographical references (pages [91]-94).

English text, with stories in Fon (Fongbe) accompanied by English translation.
Table of contents: title: Benin: history, religion and verbal art --; title: Collecting the corpus --; title: The verbal art of the Fon: the performance witnessed --; title: Elements of Fongbe stories --; title: Topics: power and violations --; title: The genre --; title: The tools of the performers --; title: Remarks abou the transcription and the translation --; title: The Ayou stories.; title: Hunter Little Finger and the King (Ayou 1) --; title: How Yeh deceived Great Spirit Dada Sehgbo (Ayou 2) --; title: How Yoh was thrown out of the Land of Sky (Ayou 3) --; title: How Yeh escaped from the market of the ancestors (Ayou 4) --; title: The cat and the leopard (Ayou 5) --; title: The rooster and the elephant (Ayou 6) --; title: How Yeh deceived the leopard and the termites (Ayou 7) --; title: How Yoh deceived them all (Ayou 8) --; title: The Abomey-Calavi stories.; title: The hunger's wife (Abomey-Calavi 1) --; title: The sadist co-wife (Abomey-Calavi 2) --; title: Two heartless brothers (Abomey-Calavi 3) --; title: The day to thresh the millet (Abomey-Calavi 4) --; title: Two friends (Abomey-Calavi 5) --; title: Rather friendship than power (Abomey-Calavi 6) --; title: The ruthless husband (Abomey-Calavi 7) --; title: The looser [loser] (Abomey-Calavi 8) --; title: The adulterous king's wife (Abomey-Calavi 9) --; title: The horny king (Abomey-Calavi 10) --; title: The upstart hunter (Abomey-Calavi 11) --; title: The insane co-wife (Abomey-Calavi 12) --; title: The madman at the courtyard of the royal palace (Abomey-Calavi 13) --; title: The malevolent co-wife (Abomey-Calavi 14) --; title: The ill-natured first-born daughter (Abomey-Calavi 15) --; title: The leopard and the cat (Abomey-Calavi 16) --; title: The origin of the lunar eclipse and the creation of fish (Abomey-Calavi 17) --; title: As you sow so shall you reap (Abomey-Calavi 18) --; title: A matter of life and death (Abomey-Calavi 19) --; title: The Abomey stories.; title: Two women friends (Abomey 1) --; title: The indiscreet hunter (Abomey 2) --; title: The vicious farmer (Abomey 3) --; title: The day to thresh the millet (Abomey 4) --; title: The sadist co-wife (Abomey 5) --; title: The lion and the hyena (Abomey 6) --; title: The cat and the leopard (Abomey 7) --; title: The adulterous wife (Abomey 8) --; title: Who is important? (Abomey 9) --; title: How Yoh was up to his tricks again, or so he thought (Abomey 10).