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Jackson, Michael Returns. The Politics of Storytelling - Part II
, e-publikation ISBN 978-87-635-0059-3 s. 127-226 i: True
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Part II of The Politics of Storytelling also contains the table of contents, preface and references for the entire book.
From the beginning of the chapter:
In the remote north of Sierra Leone, where I did my first fieldwork,
Kuranko storytellers conventionally begin their stories with a stock
phrase -wo lai yan la or wule yan be la – that sets the narrative “far off and
long ago.” As with our familiar ‘Once upon a time’ or ‘There once lived,’
stories are thus situated outside the space-time in which they are actually
told. At once a ruse that suggests that a line may be drawn between the
imaginary and the real, a rhetorical trick that protects the storyteller from
possible accusations of sedition, and a way of helping an audience identify
with the tale’s protagonists, such framing devices are characteristic of all
forms of ‘play.’ Thus, when a traditional Arabian tale opens with the
declaration “This happened and this did not happen,” or an Ashanti
narrative begins with the disclaimer “We don’t really mean to say so, we
don’t really mean to say so” (Rattray 1930), or an Egyptian tale purports
to have taken place in China, even though everything about it is manifestly
Egyptian, listeners suspend their disbelief.
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