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In Search of Sunjata: The Mande Oral Epic as History, Literature, and Performance

Name: In Search of Sunjata: The Mande Oral Epic as History, Literature, and Performance
Author: Ralph A. Austen
ISBN: 9780253334527

Ralph A. Austen

360 pages

Indiana University Press

Nov 1999

Hardcover

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The Sunjata epic, which celebrates the founder of the 13th century Mali empire, is the most famous African epic. The pathbreaking essays by well known scholars in this watershed volume examine Sunjata from a variety of perspectives.

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Published 1999

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