An edition of Vodun stories of the Fon (Benin)
(2014)
Vodun stories of the Fon (Benin)
by Marjolijn Aalders Grool
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Collection of 37 story texts, "gwènùxó," told by 15 performers in three villages of southern Benin, transcribed from recordings made April-June 1976.
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Fon (African people), Oral tradition, Folklore, StorytellingPlaces
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Table of Contents
Benin: history, religion and verbal art --
Collecting the corpus --
The verbal art of the Fon: the performance witnessed --
Elements of Fongbe stories --
Topics: power and violations --
The genre --
The tools of the performers --
Remarks abou the transcription and the translation --
The Ayou stories.
Hunter Little Finger and the King (Ayou 1) --
How Yeh deceived Great Spirit Dada Sehgbo (Ayou 2) --
How Yoh was thrown out of the Land of Sky (Ayou 3) --
How Yeh escaped from the market of the ancestors (Ayou 4) --
The cat and the leopard (Ayou 5) --
The rooster and the elephant (Ayou 6) --
How Yeh deceived the leopard and the termites (Ayou 7) --
How Yoh deceived them all (Ayou 8) --
The Abomey-Calavi stories.
The hunger's wife (Abomey-Calavi 1) --
The sadist co-wife (Abomey-Calavi 2) --
Two heartless brothers (Abomey-Calavi 3) --
The day to thresh the millet (Abomey-Calavi 4) --
Two friends (Abomey-Calavi 5) --
Rather friendship than power (Abomey-Calavi 6) --
The ruthless husband (Abomey-Calavi 7) --
The looser [loser] (Abomey-Calavi 8) --
The adulterous king's wife (Abomey-Calavi 9) --
The horny king (Abomey-Calavi 10) --
The upstart hunter (Abomey-Calavi 11) --
The insane co-wife (Abomey-Calavi 12) --
The madman at the courtyard of the royal palace (Abomey-Calavi 13) --
The malevolent co-wife (Abomey-Calavi 14) --
The ill-natured first-born daughter (Abomey-Calavi 15) --
The leopard and the cat (Abomey-Calavi 16) --
The origin of the lunar eclipse and the creation of fish (Abomey-Calavi 17) --
As you sow so shall you reap (Abomey-Calavi 18) --
A matter of life and death (Abomey-Calavi 19) --
The Abomey stories.
Two women friends (Abomey 1) --
The indiscreet hunter (Abomey 2) --
The vicious farmer (Abomey 3) --
The day to thresh the millet (Abomey 4) --
The sadist co-wife (Abomey 5) --
The lion and the hyena (Abomey 6) --
The cat and the leopard (Abomey 7) --
The adulterous wife (Abomey 8) --
Who is important? (Abomey 9) --
How Yoh was up to his tricks again, or so he thought (Abomey 10).
Edition Notes
"The analyses of the [storytelling] performance itself are described in full in the book 'Verbal Art of the Fon (Benin)' (Aalders Grool 2013)."--Page [11].
Includes bibliographical references (pages [91]-94).
English text, with stories in Fon (Fongbe) accompanied by English translation.
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