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The Mwindo Epic from the Banyanga

Author :  Daniel Biebuyck , Kahombo C. Mateene

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Country
United States
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN 9780520379800
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2021
Bib. Info 168 p,127 x 197 x 18mm
Categories Social & Cultural Anthropology
Product Weight 181 gms.
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A dynamic translation of the timeless African epic. The feats of the hero Mwindo are glorified in this epic work, sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Beautifully structured and richly poetic, the epic is in prose form, interspersed with song and proverbs in verse. As an example of the classic tradition of oral folk literature, the tale provides profound insights into the social structure, values, and cosmology of this African people.

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