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Ralph A. Austen is Professor of African History, co-chair of the Committee on African and African American Studies, and chair of the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago.
| Maps | |
| Editors' Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Epic and Its Setting | |
| "The Dichotomy of Power and Authority in Mande Society and in the Epic of Sunjata." | p. 9 |
| History, One: Content and Genesis of the Core Epic | |
| "The History of the Sunjata Epic: A Review of the Evidence." | p. 25 |
| "The Epic of Sunjata: Structure, Preservation and Transmission." | p. 59 |
| "The Historical Transformation of Genres: Sunjata as Panegyric, Folktale, Epic, and Novel." | p. 69 |
| History, Two: Sunjata in the Oral Traditions of the Broader West African World | |
| "Sinimogo, 'Man for Tomorrow': Sunjata on the Fringes of the Mande World." | p. 89 |
| "Searching for the Historical Ancestor: The Paradigm of Sunjata in Oral Traditions of the Sahel (13th-19th Centuries)." | p. 111 |
| "The Gesete of Borgu: A Neglected Type of Manding Diaspora." | p. 141 |
| "Jeli and Sere: The Dialectics of the Word in the Manden." | p. 171 |
| "Mooning Armies and Mothering Heroes: Female Power in the Mande Epic Tradition." | p. 189 |
| "Sunjata as Written Literature: The Role of the Literary Mediator in the Dissemination of the Sunjata Epic." | p. 231 |
| "Butchering Heroism?: Sunjata and the Negotiation of Postcolonial Mande Identity in Diabate's Le Boucher de Kouta." | p. 253 |
| Performance | |
| "The Production and Reproduction of Sunjata." | p. 275 |
| "An Ethnography of the Epic of Sunjata in Kela." | p. 297 |
| "Out of Print: The Epic Cassette as Intervention, Reinvention, and Commodity." | p. 313 |
| General Bibliography | p. 329 |
| Contributors | p. 339 |
| Index | p. 341 |
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