Folk Poetics: A Sociosemiotic Study of Yoruba Trickster Tales Sekoni, Ropo

Of all the different sub-genres of oral prose fiction among the Yoruba of Nigeria, the trickster tale is the most popular, especially among the nonruling stratum of society. Sekoni describes and explains literally what makes the trickster tale a trickster tale. The focus is to establish the phenomenology of the trickster tale discourse from a sociosemiotic perspective. More specifically, Sekoni attempts to investigate the sociological and narratological conditions that govern the formation, transformation, and persistence of the trickster tale primarily among the Yoruba masses and secondarily among contemporary Yoruba authors writing in English.

DOI: 10.1336/0313280037 Mouse over the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to learn more about this book or related books published by Greenwood Publishing Group. Visit the Greenwood Publishing Group page for this title: http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/SXF%252f.aspx

Folk Poetics: A Sociosemiotic Study of Yoruba Trickster Tales Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies Hardback, 160 pages, $101.95 Copyright ©1994, Greenwood Press ISBN: 0-313-28003-7 DOI: 10.1336/0313280037

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