Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island

Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island
Author :
Publisher : World Oral Literature Series
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1805110047
ISBN-13 : 9781805110040
Rating : 4/5 (040 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island by : Lee Haring

Download or read book Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island written by Lee Haring and published by World Oral Literature Series. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected colony to an overseas department of France. The author's innovation is to read ethnographic researches as play scripts-to see printed folktales as accounts of live performances. One storyteller after another comments symbolically on what it is like to be a formerly colonised population. Storytelling women, in particular, combine diverse plots and characters to create traditional-sounding stories, which could not have been predicted from the African, Malagasy, Indian, and European traditions coexisting in Mayotte. Haring's account shows them to be particularly skilled at irony and ambiguity, conveying both submissive and rebellious attitudes in their tales. He makes Mayotte storytelling accessible to a new, English-speaking audience and demonstrates that traditional storytellers in those years were preserving, but also critiquing, their inherited social order in a changing world. Their creative intentions, cultural influences and widely different narrative styles constitute Mayotte's system of the arts of the word. Literary specialists, folklore enthusiasts, and people who like reading stories will find much to appreciate in this engaging and sophisticated book.


Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island Related Books

Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Lee Haring
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-05-10 - Publisher: World Oral Literature Series

GET EBOOK

The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who i
Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island
Language: en
Pages: 125
Authors: Lee Haring
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-13 - Publisher: Open Book Publishers

GET EBOOK

The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who i
Indian Ocean Folktales
Language: en
Pages: 154
Authors: Lee Haring
Categories: Folklore
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: NFSC www.indianfolklore.org

GET EBOOK

African Folklore
Language: en
Pages: 1509
Authors: Philip M. Peek
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03-01 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Ov
Southern African Folktales
Language: en
Pages: 213
Authors: J.K. Jackson
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-07-30 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

From the rift valley come stories of gods, tricksters, cattle and ogres from the many peoples of East Africa. Traditional stories bring a deeper understanding o