THE AFRICAN STORYTELLER

FOLKLORE 460

Oral nature, structure, performance traditions, and epic ideology, from various world areas.

AFRICAN 201

Survey of African literary traditions and introduction to literary analysis.

FOLKLORE 220

Types of heroes, social functions, and tellers; tales from four cultures.

AFRICAN 402

Approaches to the analysis of African oral narrative performances, heroic poetry, epic, and the genres of written literature: Aesthetic, symbolic, and structural analysis and their interrelationships.

AFRICAN 203

Introduction to a special topic in African literature, focused on a specific region or genre.