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 · Sunjata A New Prose Version Simbon's16 father was named after Konfara, even though his real name was Maghan, thus he's known as Maghan Konfara Maghan Konfara's son was Sunjata, the last mansa of Manden Sunjata was the last of the Mande19 mansaw. Download Sunjata A New Prose Version PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Sunjata A New Prose Version book now. This site is like a library, Use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Sunjata: A New Prose Version. Edited and Translated, with an Introduction, by David C. Conrad. June - pp. A centuries old pillar of West African oral tradition, this epic describes adventures and achievements of male and female Mande ancestors led by the charismatic hero Sunjata who vies for power with Sumaworo Kanté the sorcerer king.

$ Quick Overview. "After existing orally for hundreds of years, Sunjata was written down in the twentieth 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. David Conrad's Sunjata: A New Prose Version is a rarity; a scholarly English translation of a performance of West Africa's most famous oral epic that eschews a line-by-line text. Linear translations have dominated the market since the s: Gordon Innes's Sunjata: Three Mandinka Versions (); John Johnson's Son-Jara (); and, Conrad's own Sunjata: A West African Epic of the Mande. A NEW EPIC OF ANCIENT MALI - Sunjata: A New Prose Version. Edited and translated by David C. Conrad. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co.,

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.". Download Sunjata A New Prose Version PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Sunjata A New Prose Version book now. This site is like a library, Use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Sunjata: A New Prose Version, by David C. Conrad, edited and translated, with an introduction by David C. Conrad, Indianapolis, Hacket Publishing Company, Inc., , xl + pp. The Sunjata epic is an excellent source for studying and teaching African literature, oral literature, performance and theatre, history, and oral tradition.