Borana Folk Tales: A Contextual Study

BORANA FOLK TALES A CONTEXTUAL STUDY BY SAHLU KIDANE, L12.95 Haan Assoc 1874209146

Explores the prose narratives of the Borana branch of the Oromo in Ethiopia. The Borana possess an immensely powerful, prolific, and systematic oral tradition, and this enquiry provides the reader with information on this tradition, and on the social context in which the folklore remains highly active today.

Three Borana prose genres are defined and described, each according to its inherent features and with reference to the settings in which narration occurs. Issues concerning the identity of the performer, occasion, style of performances and interaction between narrator and audience are discussed.

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