Introduction : the search for grounds in African oral tradition

dc.contributor.author	Haring, Lee	eng
dc.date.issued	1994-03	eng
dc.description	A classic means of addressing one's terror is mimesis, as my undergraduate aesthetics professor told us: imitation for the sake of mastery springs from a compulsion to order. In the light of Michael Taussig's recent book (1993) exploring the complicated relations of mimesis and alterity, mimesis can be seen to underlie all nine articles in this special issue. All in their various ways attempt to create a correspondence between the artistic human communication of African peoples and a written representation, which may be a set of propositions and correlates, a translation and summary, or an analysis that will imitate and celebrate African oral traditions while making them reasonable and explicable. The issue opens a perspective on contemporary folkloristic issues; this introduction interrogates the ground for scholarly and critical mimesis, assuming that oral and written literature both grow in such a ground.	eng
dc.description	Issue title; "African Oral Traditions."	eng
dc.format.extent	20 pages	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Oral Tradition, 9/1 (1994): 3-22.	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10355/64640
dc.language	English	eng
dc.rights	OpenAccess.	eng
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.title	Introduction : the search for grounds in African oral tradition	eng
dc.type	Article	eng