Ibibio Folktale Night: An Introduction to Ibibio Oral Literature
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Ibibio Folktale Night: An Introduction to Ibibio Oral Literature
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/067
Creator(s): Ikiddeh, Ime
Site Location(s): Subject - Nigeria, Africa( 10, 8 )
Date(s): 1966
Size and medium: ii, 110 unbound typed leaves.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409963
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
M.A. thesis presenting a general survey of the oral form of Ibibio folktales ( Nigeria), and a study of sample prose and verse tales known by the collector and seen in the context of a single night's storytelling. Its chapters provide an introduction to the region of Ibibioland, a description of categories of Ibibio folktale, the organisation and setting for a night of storytelling, English translations of twenty-one tales, a section on verbal art (in particular, proverbs and the dramatisation of the narrative, the inclusion of song, traditional poetry), the tales and the Aarne-Thompson Type Index. A glossary of Efik-Ibibio words is included.
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