In Search of Sunjata
Subtitle: The Mande Oral Epic As History, Literature and Performance
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780253212481
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Oral history; Theatre, drama; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; African Languages; Africa; African
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.