The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga (Zaire)

1. Auflage, The Bilingual Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-520-02049-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 217 mm x 142 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

The feats of the hero Mwindo are here glorified in the bilingual text of an epic which was sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Admirably structured, coherent, and richly poetic, the epic is in prose form, interspersed with song and proverbs in verse. An example of the classic tradition of oral folk literature, the tale has important implications for the comparative study of African culture, as the text provides profound insights into the social structure, value system, linguistics, and cosmology of this African people.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biebuyck, Daniel

Mateene, Kahombo C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION THE NY ANGA NYANGA ORAL LITERATURE THE NARRATOR, MR. SHE-KAR{Sl CANDI RUREKE THE MWINDO EPIC THE SYSTEM OF TRANSCRIPTION NOTES ABOUT THE TRANSLATION
THE MWINDO EPIC TRANSLATION NYANGA TEXT
INDEX