The Sunjata epic, which celebrates the founder of the 13th century Mali empire, is Âthe most famous African epic. The pathbreaking essays by well known scholars in this watershed volume examine Sunjata from a variety of perspectives.
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Ralph A. Austen is Professor of African History, co-chair of the Committee on African and African American Studies, and chair of the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago.
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Oral tradition and its importance to African epic in west Africa,
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This collection of essays on Sunjata is important in recognizing the interconnectedness of history, literature and performance of the epic, Sunjata. This text puts Sunjata alongside epic poetry such as The Iliad and The Aeneid. The text opens the reader to ideas concerning the evolution of the poem from its oral tradition to its treatment in African cinema.
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The epic Sunjata remains popular today over a large area roughly covering the same territory that was located in the medieval empire of Mali, plus an extension into surrounding and sometimes quite distant areas inhabited by minority Mande peoples. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kuma koro, casted families, oral specialists, praise formulas, performance idiom, thatching grass, epic performances, traditional authority structure, occidentale française Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Camara Laye, Kele Monson, Bala Fasseke, Ibn Battuta, Jankuma Duga, Tira Magan, Upper Guinea, New York, Bamba Suso, Béninois Borgu, Daaman Gille, Jèsérè Dunka, Kosiya Kanté, Manden Bori, Olivier de Sardan, Almami Samori, Banna Kanute, Dankaran Turnan, Moraes Farias, Northwestern University, Sarah Brett-Smith, African Studies Association, Fadigi Sisoko, Middle Eastern, Seydou Camara New!
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The epic Sunjata remains popular today over a large area roughly covering the same territory that was located in the medieval empire of Mali, plus an extension into surrounding and sometimes quite distant areas inhabited by minority Mande peoples. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kuma koro, casted families, oral specialists, praise formulas, performance idiom, thatching grass, epic performances, traditional authority structure, occidentale française Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Camara Laye, Kele Monson, Bala Fasseke, Ibn Battuta, Jankuma Duga, Tira Magan, Upper Guinea, New York, Bamba Suso, Béninois Borgu, Daaman Gille, Jèsérè Dunka, Kosiya Kanté, Manden Bori, Olivier de Sardan, Almami Samori, Banna Kanute, Dankaran Turnan, Moraes Farias, Northwestern University, Sarah Brett-Smith, African Studies Association, Fadigi Sisoko, Middle Eastern, Seydou Camara New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Suns of Independence by Ahmadou Kourouma on page 76, page 79, and Back Matter
- Explorations in African Systems of Thought by Ivan Karp in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Oral Literature in Africa (Oxford Library of African Literature) by Ruth Finnegan on page 78, and page 179
- Bound to Violence (African Writers) by Yambo Ouologuem on page 76, and Back Matter
- Kaabu and Fuladu by Gordon Innes on page 87, and page 101
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- Sunjata (Penguin Classics) by Bamba Suso in Front Matter
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