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Blood on the Tides

By Isidore Okpewho

Blood on the Tides

By Isidore Okpewho

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The Ozidi Saga is one of Africa's best known prosimetric epics, set in the Delta region of Nigeria. Blood on the Tides examines the epic -- a tale of a warrior and his sorcerer grandmother's revenge upon the assassins who killed her son -- both as an example of oral literature and as a reflection of the specific social and political concerns of the Nigerian Delta and the country as a whole. Okpewho examines various iterations of the saga, including a performance of the entire saga in 1963 in Ibadan by the folk artist Okabou Okobolo. This performance was subsequently transcribed, translated, and edited by the renowned Nigerian poet, playwright, and scholar John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo.
Isidore Okpewho is Distinguished Professor of Africana Studies, English, and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University (SUNY). He is the author of The Epic in Africa, Myth in Africa, African Oral Literature, and Once Upon a Kingdom. An award-winning novelist, he has published four titles: The Victims, The Last Duty, Tides, and Call Me By My Rightful Name.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
294
Release Date:
2014-07-01
Publication Date:
2014-07-01
Publisher:
University of Rochester Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1580465110
ISBN13:
9781580465113
Weight:
481 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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