Canonizing Soundiata in Mande Literature: Toward a Sociology of Narrative Elements
1992; Duke University Press; Issue: 31/32 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/466223
ISSN1527-1951
Autores Tópico(s)Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
ResumoChinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie and Ihechukwu Madubuike close their book, Toward the Decolonization of African Literature, by stating that a fruitful procedure through which to classify the body of works that constitute African would be to approach the matter as one requiring an extensional definition in which family resemblances are pragmatically employed to decide which of any doubtful or borderline cases should be included within the indisputable canon of African literature (308). For Chinweizu et. al. the kinship system in question begins with the oral tradition, which reproduces in the text the apprenticeship of life as well as moral and social codes. It is the themes of the oral tradition
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