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Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-04-22 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 331
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The twenty-five excerpts in this volume have been selected and introduced so as to offer English-speaking readers a broad sample of the extensive epic tradition
Language: en
Pages: 308
Pages: 308
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-10-22 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
"Belcher's volume contains a much needed and extremely well-integrated overview and discussion of a vast inter-related West African culture complex that deserve
Language: en
Pages: 134
Pages: 134
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-13 - Publisher: Routledge
There exists a strong tendency within Western literary criticism to either deny the existence of epics in Africa or to see African literatures as exotic copies
Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher:
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