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Allegories of the Wilderness Ethics and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narratives

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ISBN-10: 0253304717

ISBN-13: 9780253304711

Edition: 1982

Authors: Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson

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"... a model of judiciousness and integrative analysis... " -- Research in African LiteraturesPoet and anthropologist Michael Jackson brings to this study of the folktales of the Kuranko people of Sierra Leone a sensitivity to the philosophical nuances of literature.
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Book details

Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/22/1982
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 340
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Kathleen Blake Yancey is the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University. Past President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA) and Past Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), she is President of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). In addition, she co-directs the Inter/National Coalition on Electronic Portfolio Research. She has directed several institutes focused on electronic portfolios and on service learning and reflection, and with her colleagues in English Education, she is working on developing a program in new literacies. Previously,…    

Preface
Introduction
Form and Play in Kuranko Fiction
During a Time of Great Hunger
Hare and Hyena
Prevented Transitions
Reciprocities
Men and Women
Co-Wives, Orphans, and Miraculous Interventions
Directions
Appendix
Notes
Glossary of Kuranko Words
References
Index