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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. Books > Fiction and Literature > Literary Theory and Criticism > African List_Books
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Foreword: Okpewho, Isidore, Ohio University Press, Paperback, Auflage: 1, 224 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-01-15T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.28 kg, Verkaufsrang: 853469, Anthologies, Fi… More...
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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780896802568
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0896802566
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Publishing year: 2008
Publisher: Ohio University Press
205 Pages
Weight: 0,277 kg
Language: eng/Englisch
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