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Southern African Folktales

(Paperback, New edition)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Southern African Folktales

Contributors:

By (Author) Professor Enongene Mirabeau Sone
Edited by J.K. Jackson

ISBN:

9781804175828

Publisher:

Flame Tree Publishing

Imprint:

Flame Tree Publishing

Publication Date:

18th July 2023

Edition:

New edition

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

398.20968

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

256

Dimensions:

Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 15mm

Weight:

176g

Description

Southern Africa is a region of impressive diversity of landscape, climate and peoples: from forests to deserts, from coasts to mountains, from subtropical to temperate, from the Zulu, Pedi and Venda peoples to the ancient San peoples whose territories span much of the entire region, with countless tribes in between. This region includes the modern countries of Angola, Botswana, Eswatini (Swaziland), Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The peoples' folktales share common themes and roots through their migrations across the mineral-rich lands and have been passed down orally to explain the world, guide society and entertain. This lively collection has a new introduction and contains tales from across the region, of creation and origins, of trickster animals and their lessons, and of hardship, greed andlove.

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Author Bio

Enongene Mirabeau Sone (Introduction) is Professor of English and African Literature as well as Folklore Studies at Walter Sisulu University in South Africa. Prof. Sone holds a BA, MA and MPhil in African literature from the University of Dschang in Cameroon and completed his PhD in African oral literature studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has taught in many universities in Africa and has published extensively on various aspects of African oral literature and folklore in reputable academic journals across the globe. His collaboration with leading world and African folklorists led to the publication of two seminal books in Oral literature and Folklore studies:The Challenge of Folklore to the Humanities(2021) edited by Dan Ben-Amos, andThe Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore(2021) edited by Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola.

Jake Jackson is General Editor of The World's Greatest Myths and Legends series, with titles including 'Myths of Babylon', 'Indian Myth', 'Egyptian Myth', 'Norse Myth' and 'Polynesian Island Myth'. He is editor of 'Myths and Legends' and foreword writer for 'Celtic Myths and Tales'. Other related work includes articles on the Philosophy of Time, 'Macbeth, A Gothic Chaos' and William Blake's use of mythology in his visionary literature.

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