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- Title
Snow White in Africa.
- Authors
Schmidt, Sigrid
- Abstract
This paper discusses the three different groups of versions of the international tale type of Snow White in Africa: Arabian versions in North and East Africa, versions similar to oral Portuguese traditions in former Portuguese colonies and a mixture of Grimm derived texts and oral traditions from Southern Europe in Namibia. They are compared with an African tale that shares with them the same basic topic: the attacks on the life of an innocent, beautiful girl. This comparison shows the differences between European and African magic tales and at the same time proves that a certain type of ancient African tales can be classified as magic tales as well. The analysis of the African tale sheds light on certain traits of the European tale.
- Subjects
SNOW White (Tale); ORAL tradition; AFRICAN folk literature; ARAB tales; TALE (Literary form); FOLKLORE; STRUCTURAL analysis (Engineering)
- Publication
Fabula, 2008, Vol 49, Issue 3/4, p268
- ISSN
0014-6242
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1515/FABL.2008.021