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Informationen zum Autor Makuchi is a professor of English at North Carolina State University! Raleigh. Her publications include a book of short fiction! Your Madness! Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon! and Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity! Sexuality! and Difference. Klappentext "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-three 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. These tales reinforce the commonalities of our human experiences without discounting our differences. "Since no other collection of Cameroon folktales is readily available in English, this is a useful addition to the literature of folklore. Recommended. All readers, all levels."-- "Choice" Zusammenfassung 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.
