Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island

by Lee Haring

The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected colony to an overseas department of France.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1805110055
• ISBN13: 9781805110057
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Open Book Publishers
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"