Authenticity and oral performance: textualizing the epics of Africa for Western audiences

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Introduction
5. Text as process and practice: the textualization of oral epics 3
6. European epics
7. The writing of the Iliad and the Odyssey 57
8. The textualization of South Slavic oral epic and its implications for oral-derived epic 71
9. Performance, textualization, and textuality of "elegy" in Old Norse 89
10. Turkic and Siberian epics
11. Silencing the voice of the singer: problems and strategies in the editing of Turkic oral epics 103
12. Textology and epic texts from Siberia and beyond 129
13. "I lift you up, the dry throats'' - on Nanaj shamanic epic 161
14. Indian epics
15. The textualization of the Sanskrit epics 193
16. Text and context in the textualization of Tulu oral epics 217
17. African epics
18. Authenticity and oral performance: textualizing the epics of Africa for Western audiences 237
19. The textualization of Swahili epics 247
20. Creating an epic: from apprenticeship to publication 263
21. The narrator as an editor 279
22. North-American and Oceanian epics
23. Sung epic and Native American ethnopoetics 291
24. Generic models, entextualization and creativity: epic tradition on the Southern Cook Islands 343
25. Index 371
26. List of contributors 389
27. 391-392 391