Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler

Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro

African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since the 1990s, Mirzeler has travelled to East Africa to apprentice with storytellers. Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro is both an account of his experience listening to these storytellers and of how oral tradition continues to evolve in the modern world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781442648661
• ISBN-10: 144264866X
• Artikelnr.: 40114007

Autorenporträt

Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler is an associate professor in the Department of English at Western Michigan University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgements
Maps
A Note: On Personal Names and on the Transcription of Jie Words
Personal Names and Places and Some Common Words
Introduction
Part I
Chapter One: Jie Past and Present: Ecology, Economy, Guns, and State
Chapter Two: Ethnography of Storytelling
Part II
Chapter Three Patterns and Images of Historical Tradition
Chapter Four: The Jie Landscaper, Memory, and Historical Tradition
Chapter Five: Historical Tradition and Poetic Persuasion of Pastness
Part III
Chapter Six: The Return of Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro
Chapter Seven: The Significance of Nayeche and the Grey Bull Engiro
Oral Tradition in a Jie Storyteller’s Autobiography
Conclusion
Part IV
The Stories
Bibliography
Notes