"Short Time to Stay": Comments on Time, Literature, and Oral Performance

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1981
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African Studies Program, Indiana University
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Discusses the concept of oral literature as performance, rather than as permanent text. Argues that the performance of oral literature should be seen as an event in time rather than existing in a spatial dimension as text. The author uses examples from Sierra Leone and other parts of West Africa to illustrate her argument.
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Oral Literature, Anthropology, West Africa, Concepts of Time
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