The Oral Epic of Ngombi Nliga Ngwan: Between Literariness and Pragmatics

This essay studies an oral epic from the Basaa of Cameroon, transcribed, translated into French and annotated recently for the first time (2019). Resorting to an interdisciplinary methodology that combines contributions from anthropology, stylistics and literary pragmatics, the reflection attempts to underline the literary nature of of the peak story, which not only brings together the fundamental traits commonly accepted as literary ones of the peak genre, but also lends itself to the theories developed in recent decades within the framework of the aesthetics of the reception. Thus, the text is inserted in its enunciative context and certain sociological and axiological values typical of the Cameroonian Basaa socioculture are emphasized.

• Tipo de recurso: http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6695
• Fecha de publicación: 2022
• Institución: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
• Repositorio: RiUPTC: Repositorio Institucional UPTC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/12835
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/la_palabra/article/view/13776; https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/handle/001/12835
• Palabra clave: oral epic; literariness; Cameroonian traditional literature; pragmatics; Basaa people; epopeya oral; literariedad; literatura tradicional camerunesa; pragmática; pueblo Basaa; Épico oral; Literariedade; Literatura tradicional camaronesa; Pragmática; Povo Basaa
• License: Derechos de autor 2022 La Palabra