"Short Time to Stay": Comments on Time, Literature, and Oral Performance

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dc.contributor.authorFinnegan, Ruth H.
dc.date.accessioned2006-09-19T18:48:19Z
dc.date.available2006-09-19T18:48:19Z
dc.date.issued1981
dc.description.abstractDiscusses the concept of oral literature as performance, rather than as permanent text. Argues that the performance of oral literature should be seen as an event in time rather than existing in a spatial dimension as text. The author uses examples from Sierra Leone and other parts of West Africa to illustrate her argument.
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dc.identifier.isbn0-941934-35-7
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2022/296
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAfrican Studies Program, Indiana University
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHans Wolff Memorial Lecture Series
dc.relation.ispartofseries12th Annual Hans Wolff Lecture
dc.rightsThis work may be protected by copyright unless otherwise stated.
dc.subjectOral Literature
dc.subjectAnthropology
dc.subjectWest Africa
dc.subjectConcepts of Time
dc.title"Short Time to Stay": Comments on Time, Literature, and Oral Performance
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