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Biebuyck, Daniel The Mwindo Epic
University of California Press 1992 0520020499 / 9780520020498 Paperback New n/a Paperback
New. Some rubbing to publisher's decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.The richness of content and the variety of literary forms of this epic are quite amazing. . . . It is a macrocosm of Nyanga life and culture. . . . A classic of African oral literature. -- Research in African Literature 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 Zaire. 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.
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