Narrative strategies in African folktales
Subtitle: revisiting the Russian formalism theory
By: Justin S. Niati
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781462660384
Subjects: Yombe (Congolese and Angolan people); Folklore; History and criticism; Tales; African Folk literature; Proverbs, Yombe (Congo and Angola); Formalism (Literary analysis); Formalism (Literature); Yombe (Peuple du Congo et d'Angola); Histoire et critique; Contes; Littérature populaire africaine; Formalisme (Littérature)
Description: "Is there any clear and consistent relationship between the functions in the Russian folktales and in the African/Yombe tales and why? This book addresses this legitimate concern as it applies the Russian formalists' theory of functions to the structural narrative strategies in the African folktales. This is very significant because it is necessary for the scholar to know whether the format of the African folktale is an unconscious accident or is dictating to other cultures or visa versa"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-180).
Table of contents: title: I.; title: Introduction --; title: The Yombe in Mayombe --; title: Mastering the Yombe culture -- -- 2.; title: The Yombe tales --; title: Origin --; title: Types --; title: Songs in the tale --; title: Story telling --; title: The audience --; title: Similarities -- -- III.; title: Revisiting the Russian formalism --; title: Understanding the Russian formalism in literature -- -- IV.; title: Structural analysis of the Yombe tales --; title: Propp's genetic functions in the Yombe tales --; title: Summary --; title: The dramatis personae in the Yombe tales -- -- V.; title: Conclusion -- -- . VI.; title: The stories --; title: Why Kikhanda the monkey does not have a tail --; title: The fooled leopard --; title: When Lord Leopard fell in love with the gazelle --; title: Why the antelope remained wild --; title: The dog and the lizard --; title: The story of the bat and the dog --; title: Why the mouse smells bad --; title: The man who failed at everything --; title: Why the rat lives in a burrow --; title: Who is older, the toad or the toucan? --; title: Why mosquitoes buzz in our ears --; title: The toad that was more clever than lightning --; title: Young girls: look out for the stranger --; title: The woman who married a man without a nose --; title: The fiancé and the sorcerer --; title: The man who ate his wife's placenta --; title: The weed-planter bird and the woman --; title: A hunter among the wild animals --; title: How the lizard ate the yam and the child --; title: The mother who lent her beauty to her son --; title: Should you trust your rival? --; title: The twin girls --; title: The uncle and his nephew --; title: The story of the monster-with-ten-stomachs --; title: The story of the man who found himself in the land of the dead --; title: The ant and the millipede --; title: The bride and her fiancé sorcerer --; title: The two brothers who fell in love with the same girl --; title: The woman and the viper --; title: The blind and the dwarf.