Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers - Tradition and Invention in Mende Story Performance

Klappentext The domei is a popular narrative art form among the Mende people of Sierra Leone. Zusammenfassung The domei is a popular narrative art form among the Mende people of Sierra Leone. Although it is a traditional form! the narratives are not remembered or retold! but on each occasion the performers recreate out of a common stock of characters and plots domeisia! which are singular and sometimes brilliant expressions of a singular! and often brilliant! culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Prologue; 2. Mende mimesis; 3. Image; 4. The elements of performance; 5. Defiant maids; 6. Stubborn farmers.

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• Authors: Donald J. Cosentino
• Assisted by: Donald Cosentino (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521105040
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10504-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Oral and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology