African Tales

Name: African Tales
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ISBN: 9780299209407

ISBN-10: 0299209407

ISBN-13: 9780299209407

Edition: 2005

Authors: Harold Scheub

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The latest work from Harold Scheub, one of the world's leading scholars of African folktales, is the broadest collection yet assembled with tales from the entire continent of Africa, north to south. It brings together mythic, fantastic, and coming-of-age tales, some transcribed more than a hundred years ago, others dating to modern-day Africa. Scheub includes the work of storytellers from major African language groups, as well as many storytellers whose work is not often heard outside of Africa. This anthology offers a classroom-ready collection that should appeal to any scholar of African literature and culture. Realizing that these tales are part of a dying art, Scheub writes for the…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 4/5/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Story and storyteller : the collection of stories from the oral tradition



Kwaku Ananse and Aso



Akenda Mbani



The cock



Tale of a lantern



The favored daughter



The African



Dschemil and Dschemila



Half-a-cock



The boy and the girl



Mbewa and Nkerma



The twin brothers



Samba Gueladio Diegui



Fountinndouha



The man and the leopard



The two girls



The fleeing girls and the rock



The old woman



Thadhellala



The cunning young woman



The little wise woman



The old woman, her sons, and the python



Five dead men attend a dance



The hole in the tree



The jackal and the little antelope



Andrianoro



The hare, the hyena, and the lioness's cave



Na kimanaueza



The hyenas and the sage



Kachirambe



The girls who went to have teeth made for them



Nwampfundla



The young man who was carried off by a lion



The magic mirror



Nyajak



The sultan's wife



Monyohe



The physician's son and the king of the snakes



Untombinde, the tall girl



The man who passed the night in the middle of the sea



The hare and the lion



Spider



In quest of a wife



Children of the anthill



The king and the kini-kini bird



Untombi-yaphansi



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