Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers: Tradition and Invention in Mende Story Performance by Donald J. Cosentino

Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers: Tradition and Invention in Mende Story Performance

Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture

Donald J. Cosentino

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The domei is a popular narrative art form among the Mende people of Sierra Leone. Although it is a traditional form, the narratives are not remembered or retold, but on each occasion the performers recreate out of a common stock of characters and ...

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