Tales of Amadou Koumba
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First edition
Tales of Amadou Koumba or Les Contes d'Amadou Koumba is a collection of tales from Senegal, transcribed by Birago Diop from the accounts of his family's griot, Amadou Koumba. It was published for the first time in 1947.[1]
This is one of the first significant attempts to put African oral literature into written form. According to , these tales reveal the finest art of the Wolof griots and Birago Diop makes these tales audible to the European reader and the least informed of the "Black African spirit".[2]
Tales (in French titles)[]
- "Fari l'ânesse"
- "Un jugement"
- "Les mamelles"
- "N'Gor Niébé"
- "Maman-Caïman"
- "Les mauvaises compagnies I"
- "Les mauvaises compagnies II"
- "Les mauvaises compagnies III"
- "Les mauvaises compagnies IV"
- "La lance de l'hyène"
- "Une commission"
- "Le salaire"
- "Tours de lièvre"
- "Petit-mari"
- "Vérité et mensonge"
- "La biche et les deux chasseurs"
- "Les calebasses de Kouss"
- "L'héritage"
- "Sarzan"
Editions[]
- Paris, Fasquelle, coll. « Écrivains d'Outre-Mer », 1947
- Rééd. Paris/Dakar, Présence Africaine, 1960
- Rééd. Paris/Dakar, Présence Africaine, 1969
References[]
- ^ "Birago Diop | Senegalese author". Retrieved 2016-10-05.
- ^ Roland Colin, Les Contes noirs de l'Ouest africain. Témoins majeurs d'un humanisme, Présence Africaine, 1957, éd. poche 2005, p.44
Categories:
- Senegalese literature
- 1947 books
- African folklore
- Collections of fairy tales
- African fairy tales
- Senegal stubs