Oral literature in Africa
By: Ruth Finnegan
Series: World oral literature series -- volume 1; World oral literature series -- v. 1
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9781906924706
Subjects: African Folk literature; History and criticism; Oral tradition; Littérature populaire africaine; Histoire et critique; Tradition orale
Description: "This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images, and an updated bibliography, as well as original chapters on poetry, prose, 'drum language' and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-545) and index.

Also published electronically.