The Sacred Door and Other Stories

Posted on 11 February 2017 by Makuchi

The Sacred Door and Other Stories Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions Makuchi retells the stories that she heard at home when she was growing up in her native Cameroon.The collection of thirty four folktales of the Beba showcases a wide variety of stories that capture the richness and complexities of an agrarian society s oral literature and traditions Revenge, greed, and deception are among the themes that frame the story lines in both new and familiar ways In the title story, a poor man finds himself elevated to king The condition for his continued success is that he not open the sacred door This tale of temptation, similar to the story of Pandora s box, concludes with the question, What would you have done Makuchi relates the stories her mother told her so that readers can make connections between African and North American oral narrative traditions These tales reinforce the commonalities of our human experiences without discounting our differences. Free Read The Sacred Door and Other Stories by Makuchi For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr 200717 cultural comparison with chinese different oral tales, tech, social structure, family, less rigid, technologically primitive,animal spirit lives same fascinating in anth socio way, moral compass,...These stories probably works a lot better when told rather than read They give an insight to the traditional stories of the Beba people, but are not that enjoyable in their very basic version.I had Makuchi as a professor at NC State University She s a great professor and a great author Love her

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11 February 2017

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