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    <title>Oral literature in Africa</title>
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    <namePart>Finnegan, Ruth H.</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2012</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xlii, 568 pages : illustrations.</extent>
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  <abstract>"This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images, and an updated bibliography, as well as original chapters on poetry, prose, 'drum language' and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa."--Back cover.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Ruth Finnegan</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <note>Unrestricted online access</note>
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    <topic>Folk literature</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Folk literature, African</topic>
    <topic>History and criticism</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Oral tradition</topic>
    <geographic>Africa</geographic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">PL8010 FIN</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781906924706</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">2019467807</identifier>
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