Asante Traditions and Female Self-Assertion
Sister Abena's Narrative
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250708 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beverly J Stoeltje, Beverly Stoeltje (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-41 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ral.2009.40.1.27 |
| OpenAlex | W1976470121 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 10 |
Exploring the relationship between narrative and conflict, this study takes as its subject the narrative of one individual woman in Kumasi, Ghana. In her account, she narrates the situation in which her former boyfriend places a curse on her, and the process she followed in order to revoke the curse. Utilizing Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of a dialogic process and recent work on the representation of conflict in narrative, the paper examines the significance of narrative in shaping social life. Specifically, it identifies the link between the performance of oral traditions, narrative in particular, and traditional institutions. It also reveals the process by which one genre links to another, moving the process forward, and it explores how experience is communicated and conflict interpreted and resolved through the performance of narrative
Art · Assertion · Genealogy · Literature · Narrative · Sister · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
Sociocultural dimensions of language use
The Dialogic Imagination
Religion & art in Ashanti
Investigating Oral Tradition
Culture and Customs of Ghana
Disorderly Discourse
Performance and Honor in 13th-Century Iceland
Genres of Power
Therapy, Ideology and Social Change
Poetics and Performances as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |