The Absent Father: a Vietnamese folktale and its French shadows
This paper discusses some variants of a Vietnamese folktale that we shall generically call “The Shadow of the Absent Father”. The Emperor Le Thanh Tong first refers to the story in a poem written during the fifteenth century. The earliest detailed record of the tale, “The Story of the Woman from...
Main Author: | Aveling, Harry |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2017
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Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11624/1/18694-52965-1-PB.pdf |
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