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Title: | The State of Oral Literature Research in Ethiopia: Retrospect and Prospect |
Author: | Fekade Azeze |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Journal of Ethiopian Studies |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 43-85 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Ethiopia Northeast Africa |
Subjects: | oral literature literature reviews (form) Bibliography/Research Education and Oral Traditions literature Folk literature research bibliography Literature surveys Ethiopian languages |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/41966115 |
Abstract: | This survey of research on oral literature in Ethiopia considers the contributions of both expatriate scholars and Ethiopians in collecting and studying Ethiopian oral literature. It surveys published oral literature texts in Ethiopian languages as well as unpublished works, the work of the Department of Ethiopian Languages and Literature (senior essays by graduating students, the oral literature research group) and some oral literature texts and research presented by Ethiopians in English. It stresses the need for a new collaborative effort with respect to the selection and translation into English of old seminal oral literature works in Italian, German and French and the preparation of a specialized, general annotated bibliography of works in oral literature, as well as a number of other measures, leading to the establishment of a folklore documentation centre that could gradually grow into a folklore institute. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |