SOURCE: Bulman, Stephen. “The Buffalo-Woman Tale: Political Imperatives and Narrative Constraints in the Sunjata Epic.” In Discourse and Its Disguises: The Interpretation of African Oral Texts, pp. 171-207. Birmingham, Ala.: Centre of Western African Studies, 1989.
In the following essay, Bulman analyzes how the storyteller achieves new meaning by reworking the hunter-stranger motif in the Sunjata.
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