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The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba (RESEARCH IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AFRICA SERIES, Band 86) - Softcover

Buch 35 von 50: Ohio RIS Africa

Makuchi

 
9780896802568: The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba (RESEARCH IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AFRICA SERIES, Band 86)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0896802566 ISBN 13: 9780896802568
Verlag: Univ of Chicago on behalf of Ohio Univ Press, 2008

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The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions. Makuchi retells the stories that she heard at home when she was growing up in her native Cameroon.
The collection of thirty-four folktales of the Beba showcases a wide variety of stories that capture the richness and complexities of an agrarian society's oral literature and traditions. Revenge, greed, and deception are among the themes that frame the story lines in both new and familiar ways. In the title story, a poor man finds himself elevated to king. The condition for his continued success is that he not open the sacred door. This tale of temptation, similar to the story of Pandora's box, concludes with the question, "What would you have done?"
Makuchi relates the stories her mother told her so that readers can make connections between African and North American oral narrative traditions. These tales reinforce the commonalities of our human experiences without discounting our differences.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Makuchi is professor of English and
Comparative Literature at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Her publications include a book of short fiction, Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon, and Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference.

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Verlag
Univ of Chicago on behalf of Ohio Univ Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0896802566
ISBN 13 
9780896802568
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
234
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