SOURCE: Johnson, John William. “Historicity and the Oral Epic: The Case of Sun-Jata Keita.” In The Old Traditional Way of Life: Essays in Honor of Warren E. Roberts, edited by Robert E. Walls and George H. Schoemaker with Jennifer Livesay and Laura Dassow Walls, pp. 351-61. Bloomington, Ind.: Trickster Press, 1989.
In the following essay, Johnson uses the example of the Sunjata to explore the general question of historicity in oral tradition.
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