Sunjata: A New Prose Version

Klappentext "After existing orally for hundreds of years! Sunjata was written down in the 20th century. David Conrad! who recorded a new version of the epic! has now crafted a prose translation that preserves the oral flavor of live performance. The result is a captivating work of literature that will finally give the story of Sunjata its well-deserved place among the great epics of world literature." Martin Puchner! Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature! Harvard University Zusammenfassung David Conrad's new prose translation of the Sunjata epic highlights the narrative aspect of the epic while conveying the essential performative quality of his 2004 verse translation. A revised Introduction, a glossary of Maninka terms, a guide to major characters, and maps provide further assistance to first-time readers of the epic.

Klappentext

"After existing orally for hundreds of years, Sunjata was written down in the 20th century. David Conrad, who recorded a new version of the epic, has now crafted a prose translation that preserves the oral flavor of live performance. The result is a captivating work of literature that will finally give the story of Sunjata its well-deserved place among the great epics of world literature." —Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Zusammenfassung
David Conrad's new prose translation of the Sunjata epic highlights the narrative aspect of the epic while conveying the essential performative quality of his 2004 verse translation. A revised Introduction, a glossary of Maninka terms, a guide to major characters, and maps provide further assistance to first-time readers of the epic.