Folk Poetics: A Sociosemiotic Study of Yoruba Trickster Tales

Folk Poetics: A Sociosemiotic Study of Yoruba Trickster TalesOf all the different sub genres of oral prose fiction developed by the Yoruba of Nigeria, the trickster tale is the most popular, especially among the nonruling stratum of society. Sekoni describes and explains literally what makes the trickster tale a trickster tale. The focus is to establish the phenomenology of the trickster tale discourse from a sociosemiotic perspective. More specifically, Sekoni attempts to investigate the sociological and

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