Throwing stones in jest : Kasena women's "Proverbial" revolt

dc.contributor.author	Yitah, Helen	eng
dc.date.issued	2006-10	eng
dc.description	This paper looks at how Kasena women from Northern Ghana take advantage of a socially sanctioned medium, the "joking" relationship that exists between an individual and her spouse's siblings, to subvert and contradict Kasem proverbs in an effort to transcend the misogynist images and connotations of these proverbs as well as to critique patriarchal norms. In this socially approved context, the women seem to have embarked on a "proverbial revolt" that finds expression via methods that have not been practiced before. The women's disruptive strategies consist of subverting an existing proverb in a way that questions its "truth," or in employing a proverb that engages and critiques the logic of another proverb.	eng
dc.description	Note	eng
dc.format.extent	17 pages	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Oral Tradition, 21/2 (2006): 233-249.	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10355/65081
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	Throwing stones in jest : Kasena women's "Proverbial" revolt	eng
dc.type	Article	eng