Traditions and Transitions folk narrative in the contemporary world
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July 2001 The University of Melbourne, Australia
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The African writer has continued to draw from, and to
exploit, the rich resources of traditional African hermeneutics and oral
literature for the purpose of evolving new ethos’ and different hero concepts.
This fact illustrates the thrust of this paper, as it highlights the hybrid
nature of modern African literature and the need to articulate a synthesized
approach for effective exegetic study of all the generic forms.
This paper will attempt to locate the common grounds and the points of
departure of the creative vis-à-vis the critical streams which informed the
traditional trickster hero and his appropriation in modern African literature,
by characterizing the nature and functions of the trickster hero, and those of
his transposed characters; and the development of the trickster hero concept
from a comparative historical perspective.
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