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| Title: | Tale and trickster in Yoruba verbal art |
| Author: | Pin, Deirdre La |
| Year: | 1980 |
| Periodical: | Research in African Literatures |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pages: | 327-341 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | Yoruba trickster tales |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3818279 |
| Abstract: | Yoruba tales are identified with a mode by the context in which their performance takes place. One distinct model type is àlò, which means non-true, fiction. The single most prevalent character in Yoruba tradition is the wily hero Tortoise. His field of action is the àlò. The article describes this Trickster Tortoise. Tortoise and àlò when combined give a picture of a marginal man in a marginal world. Notes. |
