Nsiirin! Nsiirin! : Jula folktales from West Africa /

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Author / Creator:Giray-Saul, Eren, 1953-
Imprint:East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [1996]
Description:271 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:African historical sources series ; no. 8
African historical sources ; no. 8.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2451611
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Other authors / contributors:Outtarra, Awa.
Gô, Jean.
ISBN:087013454X (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-271).
Table of Contents:
  • Three Brothers Go to Funerals
  • Two Friends
  • The Devouring Calabash
  • The Woman Who Received the Gift of a Child from a Tree
  • The Jealous Husband and His Wife Who Lost Her "Thing"
  • Hare and the Names of Villages
  • The Daughter of the King Who Didn't Want Her Leper Husband
  • The Young Girl Who Sought the Earthenware Jar Far Away
  • The Stranger Who Farmed on the Genies' Terrain
  • A Man's Dog Saves Him from Genies
  • The Woman Who Pretended to Be Dead to Go with Her Lover
  • The Girl Who Searches for Her Own Husband
  • The Unfavored Wife Becomes the Preferred One in the End
  • The Worm That Swallows the Impudent Child
  • The Little Brother Who Gained Women from the Waters Because He Listened to His Father
  • The Girl with the Long Tail
  • Little Sister Becomes Pregnant from Her Brother
  • Notes to Jula Tales.