Contending with the Masculinist Traditions: 'Sundiata's' Sogolon and the Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Vance, Sidney.
Contending with the Masculinist Traditions: 'Sundiata's' Sogolon and the Wife of Bath
- Published
- Sandra Ward Lott, S. G. Hawkins, and Norman McMillan, eds. Global Perspectives on Teaching Literature: Shared Visions and Distinctive Visions. (Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 1993), pp. 101-108.
- Description
- Observes parallels between WBT and the narrative of the matriarch Sogolon in the African (Mandingo) epic "Sundiata." Each includes a quest, a knowledgeable old hag, shape-shifting, and a version of rape. Such parallels enable us to "engage in a dialogue with an African text that narrates another woman's heroic confrontation with a system that would use her and other women."
- Contributor
- Lott, Sandra Ward,
- Hawkins, S. G.,
- McMillan, Norman,ed.
- ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- Global Perspectives on Teaching Literature: Shared Visions and Distinctive Visions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.