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Sekoni, Ropo.
Folk poetics: : a sociosemiotic study of Yoruba trickster tales
Ropo Sekoni.
p. cm. -- Contibution in Afro-American and African
studies , ISSN 0069-9624; no. 162)
Includes bibliographic references and index.
ISBN 0-313-28003-7 (alk. paper)
1. Yoruba (African people -- Folklore. 2. Trickster -- Nigeria --
History and criticism. 3. Semiotics and folk literature -- Nigeria.
I. Tide. II. Series.
GR351.32.Y56S45 1994
398'.08996333 -- dc2O 93-6684

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Copyright © 1994 by Ropo Sekoni

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 93-6684
ISBN: 0-313-28003-7
ISSN: 0069-9624

First published in 1994

Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America

The paper used in this book complies with the
Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National
Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984).
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

The author and publisher are grateful for permission to reprint excerpts from:

Ropo Sekoni, "The Narrator, Narrative-Pattern and Audience Experience of
Oral Narrative-Performance". In Isidore Okewho, ed., The Oral Performance
in Africa, pp. 145-150 (Ibadan, Nigeria: Spectrum Books, Ltd., 1990).
Reprinted by permission of Spectrum Books, Ltd.

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