| dc.contributor.author | Moolla, Fiona F. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-08T07:34:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-05-08T07:34:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Moolla, F.F. (2012). When orature becomes literature: Somali oral poetry and folktales in Somali novels.Comparative Literature Studies, 49(3): 434-462 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0010-4132 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1528-4212 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/603 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/483620 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The article discusses Somali literature, with particular focus given to the influence of Somali oral poetry and folk tales on modern novels. The difference between the concepts of orature and oral literature is examined, and the history of print and oral literary culture coexisting in Somalia is commented on. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Pennsylvania State University Press | en_US |
| dc.rights | This is the author's final draft following peer review. It may be displayed and circulated, subject to full acknowledgement of author and source. The published item is copyright This is the author's final draft following peer review. It may be displayed and circulated, subject to full acknowledgement of author and source. The published item is copyright Pennsylvania State University Press. | |
| dc.subject | Somali literature | en_US |
| dc.subject | Folk literature | en_US |
| dc.subject | Somali | en_US |
| dc.subject | Folk Poetry | en_US |
| dc.subject | Africa | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tales | en_US |
| dc.title | When orature becomes literature: Somali oral poetry and folktales in Somali novels | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.privacy.showsubmitter | false | |
| dc.status.ispeerreviewed | true | |
| dc.description.accreditation | Web of Science | en_US |
