Corpus of Early Accounts of the Sunjata Epic, 1889-1959 Hardback
Edited by Stephen (Head of Academic Standards & Quality, Head of Academic Standards & Quality, Lancast Bulman, Stephen (Independent Scholar) Belcher, Valentin (Professor of Manding, Professor of Manding, Institut National des Langues et Civil Vydrin
Part of the Fontes Historiae Africanae series
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The Sunjata epic is a foundational oral narrative for Manding populations of West Africa and claims to describe the origins of the famed medieval empire of Mali.
It is both a historical source and an artistic creation of West African oral specialists, the griots (jèliw).
Despite its importance, the epic is known to Anglophone non-specialists only through a handful of accounts published after 1960.
Corpus of Early Accounts of the Sunjata Epic, 1889-1959 presents twenty understudied versions of the epic, recorded during the colonial period, that are not easily accessible.
Previously published in French and German colonial periodicals, here these sources are translated into English, each with a scholarly introduction, allowing the reader to appreciate each version's context and purpose.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:410 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:03/08/2023
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- ISBN:9780197267387
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:410 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:03/08/2023
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- ISBN:9780197267387
