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Hardcover Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology Book

ISBN: 1580464874

ISBN13: 9781580464871

Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology

(Part of the Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Series)

The Ozidi Saga is one of Africa's best known prosimetric epics, set in the Delta region of Nigeria. Blood on the Tides examines the epic -- a tale of a warrior and his sorcerer grandmother's revenge upon the assassins who killed her son -- both as an example of oral literature and as a reflection of the specific social and political concerns of the Nigerian Delta and the country as a whole. In addition the book considers various iterations of the...

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