Folklore in Nigerian literature
Bernth Lindfors
Bok · Engelsk · 1973
| Omfang | 178 sider
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| Opplysninger | Critical perspectives: Approaches to folklore in African literature ; Oral tradition and the individual literary talent ; Amos Tutuola: Amos Tutuola's The palm-wine drinkard and oral tradition ; Amos Tutuola's television-handed ghostess ; Chinua Achebe: The palm-oil with which Achebe's words are eaten ; The folktale as paradigm in Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God ; Wole Soyinka: Wole Soyinka and the horses of speech ; Cyprian Ekwensi: Cyprian Ekwensi: an African popular novelist ; Popular literature: Heroes and hero-worship in Nigerian chapbooks ; Rhetoric: Characteristics of Yoruba and Ibo prose styles in English.
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| ISBN | 0841901341
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