In Search of Sunjata
Subtitle: The Mande Oral Epic As History, Literature and Performance
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780253334527
Subjects: Africa; African Languages; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Oral history; Theatre, drama; African; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Epic of Son-Jara; Literary Criticism
First sentence: The epic Sunjata remains popular today over a large area roughly covering the same territory that was located in the medieval empire of Mali, plus an extension into surrounding and sometimes quite distant areas inhabited by minority Mande peoples.