In search of Sunjata : the Mande oral epic as history, literature and performance / edited by Ralph A. Austen.
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
c1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Epic and its setting. "Dichotomy of power and authority in Mande Society and in the Epic of Sunjata" / John William Johnson
- History, one: content and genesis of the core epic. "History of the Sunjata Epic: a review of the evidence" / Ivor Wilks
- "Epic of Sunjata: structure, preservation and transmission" / Seydou Camara
- "Historical transformation of genres: Sunjata as panegyric, folktale, epic and novel" / Ralph A. Austen
- History, two: Sunjata in the oral traditions of the broader West African world. "Sinimogo, 'Man for Tomorrow': Sunjata on the fringes of the Mande world" / Stephen Belcher
- "Searching for the historical ancestor: the paradigm of Sunjata in oral traditions of the Sahel (13th-19th centuries)" / Mamadou Diawara
- "Geste of Borgu: a neglected type of Manding diaspora" / Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias
- "Jeli and Sere: the dialects of the word in the Manden" / Karim Traoré
- "Mooning armies and mothering heroes: female power in the Mande epic tradition"
- / David C. Conrad
- Sunjata as written literature: the role of the literary mediator in the dissemination of the Sunjata Epic" / Stephen Bulman
- Butchering heroism?: Sunjata and the negotiation of postcolonial Mande identity in Diabate's Le Boucher de Kouta" / James R. McGuire
- Performance. "Production and reproduction of Sunjata" / Charles S. Bird
- "Ethnography of the Epic of Sunjata in Kela" / Jan Jansen
- "Out of print: the Epic cassette as intervention, reinvention, and commodity: / Robert C. Newton.