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

by Donald J. Cosentino

Book Overview

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 plots domeisia, which are singular and sometimes brilliant expressions of a singular, and often brilliant, culture. In this book Donald Cosentino presents a large selection of these narratives, as he collected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521105048
• ISBN13: 9780521105040
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"