Narrator as Interpreter

Stability and Variation in Hausa Tales

Author: Said Babura Ahmad. Series edited by: Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Norbert Cyffer.

Series: WeStu Westafrikanische Studien Volume 15

1997
249 pp.
3 tables, appendix: 20 Hausa tales and English translation
Text language(s): English, Hausa
Format: 160 x 240 mm
420 g
Paperback
€ 39.80

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Introduction:
General - Themes - Plot structures - Variability and Stability in Versions of The Tale - Performance and Performer - Review of the Literature on Hausa Tales.

The Position of Tales and Tale-Telling in Hausa Society:
Factors which Militate Against Oral Tradition - Factors which Promote Hausa Tales

Thematic Classification of Hausa Tales:
Unfair Treatment of Members of the Family - The Theme of Reprehensible Behaviour of the Ruling Class - Personal Virtues and Virtuous Behaviour - Deceptive Behaviour

Structural Classification of Hausa Tales:
The Simple Tale - The Compound Tale - The Complex Tale

Variability and Stability in Versions of Stories covering Four Thematic and Three Structural Categories:
The Shared Core of the Stories “A Girl and her Father” and “A Girl and her Elder Brother” - The Shared Core of the Stories “Gizo and the Birds” and “Gizo and the Cranes” - The Shared Core of the Stories “The Poor Man Picked up by a Dove” and “The Man who had a Gown of Fronds of Dum-Palm” - Variation in the Presentation of the World of the Tale Aspects of Narrative Technique in the Performances of Hajiya Saude, Kubura Magaji and Hececi: Hajiya Saude’s Performance - Kubura Magaji’s Performance - Abdu Gala’s Performance.

Accompanying material:

• Aspects of the Aesthetics of Hausa Verbal Art (ISBN 978-3-89645-264-1)
• From Oral Literature to Video (ISBN 978-3-89645-579-6)
• Goethe-Gedichte – in die Hausa-Sprache übertragen (ISBN 978-3-89645-410-2)
• Hausa and the Chadic Language Family (ISBN 978-3-927620-36-0)
• Hausa Comparative Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-927620-53-7)
• Ideology in Practice (ISBN 978-3-927620-51-3)
• Lexikon der afrikanistischen Erzählforschung (ISBN 978-3-927620-64-3)

Cross-reference:

• Lehrbuch der Hausa-Sprache (ISBN 978-3-89645-006-7)
• Lehrbuch der Hausa-Sprache mit Audio-CD (ISBN 978-3-89645-008-1)

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