Storytelling as an art from among the Nweh of the South-West province of Cameroon

• Autores: Nol Alembong
• Localización: Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and Ethnological Research, ISSN 0538-5865, Nº. 42-43, 2003-2004, págs. 157-165
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper focuses on African oral narratives - and concerns themes, classification, structure, language and characterisation, with little attention paid to performance aesthetics - this paper wishes to demonstrate the fact that storytelling is a veritable art form, as collected in Nwehland as a case study. The study wants to focus on the storytelling event, the aesthetics of the art (the structure of performance, the organisation of a tale, the resourcefulness of the narrator, and the role of the audience) showing the social relevance of this art form.