TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finnegan,Ruth
ED  - Open Book Publishers.
ED  - unglue.it.
TI  - Oral literature in Africa
T2  - World Oral Literature Series
SN  - 9781906924706 
U1  - 398.2096 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Open Book Publishers
KW  - Folk literature, African
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Oral tradition
KW  - Africa
KW  - African literature
KW  - Orally transmitted literature
KW  - to 1969
KW  - Critical studies
N1  - Revised edition of: Finnegan, Ruth H. 1970. Oral literature in Africa. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Complementary material (recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960's) is available from the World Oral Literature Project web site (http://www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html); Bibliography: p. 511-545; Also issued in print; Also available in print
N2  - "This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images, and an updated bibliography, as well as original chapters on poetry, prose, 'drum language' and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa." - back cover
UR  - http://www.openbookpublishers.com/reader/97
ER  -