Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

John Willian Johnson. The Epic of Son-Yara: A West African Tradition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

A study of the Manding oral traditional epic providing a text and translation of a performance by the griot Fa-Digi Sisoko in Kita, Western Mali, with complete data on the collection and discussion of the generic and poetic characteristics of the performance.
Area: AF