Nsiirin! Nsiirin! : Jula folktales from West Africa /
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Author / Creator: | Giray-Saul, Eren, 1953- |
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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 |
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.