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The Sacred Door and Other Stories

- Cameroon Folktales of the Beba
Af: Juliana Makuchi Abbenyi-Nfah Engelsk Paperback

The Sacred Door and Other Stories

- Cameroon Folktales of the Beba
Af: Juliana Makuchi Abbenyi-Nfah Engelsk Paperback
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The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions. Makuchi retells the stories that she heard at home when she was growing up in her native Cameroon.
The collection of thirty-four folktales of the Beba showcases a wide variety of stories that capture the richness and complexities of an agrarian society’s oral literature and traditions. Revenge, greed, and deception are among the themes that frame the story lines in both new and familiar ways. In the title story, a poor man finds himself elevated to king. The condition for his continued success is that he not open the sacred door. This tale of temptation, similar to the story of Pandora’s box, concludes with the question, “What would you have done?”
Makuchi relates the stories her mother told her so that readers can make connections between African and North American oral narrative traditions. These tales reinforce the commonalities of our human experiences without discounting our differences.

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The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions. Makuchi retells the stories that she heard at home when she was growing up in her native Cameroon.
The collection of thirty-four folktales of the Beba showcases a wide variety of stories that capture the richness and complexities of an agrarian society’s oral literature and traditions. Revenge, greed, and deception are among the themes that frame the story lines in both new and familiar ways. In the title story, a poor man finds himself elevated to king. The condition for his continued success is that he not open the sacred door. This tale of temptation, similar to the story of Pandora’s box, concludes with the question, “What would you have done?”
Makuchi relates the stories her mother told her so that readers can make connections between African and North American oral narrative traditions. These tales reinforce the commonalities of our human experiences without discounting our differences.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9780896802568
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0896802566
Udg. Dato: 1 dec 2007
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 140mm
Højde: 216mm
Forlag: Ohio University Press
Oplagsdato: 1 dec 2007
Forfatter(e) Juliana Makuchi Abbenyi-Nfah


Kategori Folklore, myter og legender


ISBN-13 9780896802568


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 224


Udgave


Længde 0mm


Bredde 140mm


Højde 216mm


Udg. Dato 1 dec 2007


Oplagsdato 1 dec 2007


Forlag Ohio University Press

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