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Folk Poetics: A Sociosemiotic Study of Yoruba Trickster Tales Ropo Sekoni
Folk Poetics: A Sociosemiotic Study of Yoruba Trickster Tales
Ropo Sekoni
The trickster tale is the most popular sub-genre of oral prose fiction developed by the Yoruba. This text aims to establish the phenomenology of its discourse from a socio-semiotic perspective. It investigates what makes up a trickster tale and shows how contemporary African writers have used it.
160 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 25, 1994 |
| ISBN13 | 9780313280030 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Pages | 160 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 12 mm · 353 g |
| Language | English |