Theorising pornogrammar in the Akan folktale tradition: The trickster’s rhetorical indirection and sexual indiscretion
In the oral and written folktale tradition of the Akan people of Ghana, Kweku Ananse is the archetypal trickster. Simultaneously, he is divinity and mortal, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic, mind and matter, culture hero and comical villain. Though the phenomenon of Ananse has been widely studied, the...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Ghana
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Legon Journal of the Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v30i1.3 |