Tradition and the African Children’s Storyteller
The Example of Amos Tutuola and Ama Ata Aidoo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8931156 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dokubo Melford Goodhead (corresponding author), Dokubo Goodhead |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 129 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 58-77 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.2017.1397414 |
| OpenAlex | W2792069264 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Africa’s oral storytelling tradition holds riches that are still largely untapped. A comparative reading of Amos Tutuola’s ‘The Complete Gentleman’, in his The Palm-Wine Drinkard, and Ama Ata Aidoo’s play Anowa offers clues on how to explore this heritage for the contemporary world. Both writers have adapted the tale of the headstrong/disobedient girl, who refuses all suitors from her own people, only to marry a monstrous stranger. The two authors’ adaptations of this widespread tale from sub-Saharan Africa offer clues both to the immense possibilities of the African folktale heritage and transcendence of once normative biases such as the fear of the stranger and gender inequality
Aesthetics · Art · Girl · Literature · Narrative · Normative · Sociology · Storytelling · Theology · Transcendence (philosophy · Anthropology · Cultural Identity and Representation · Gender Studies · History · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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