%0 Journal Article
%T An Exploration of Hausa Verbal Art Forms in Shaihu Umar: A Hausa Novel
%A Chaibou Elhadji Oumarou
%J Advances in Literary Study
%P 21-29
%@ 2327-4050
%D 2015
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/als.2015.31004
%X <div style=\"text-align:justify;\">
	<span style=\"line-height:1.5;\">This paper explores the Hausa verbal art forms in Shaihu Umar, a novel first published in the Hausa language and then translated into English. The paper mostly focuses on the author¡¯s use of the structures of a Hausa initiation tale as a vehicle for the narrative in the novel. In other words, the paper attempts to investigate how the author uses the structures of Hausa tales for stylistic effects. As a result, the paper tries to identify and analyze what the novel owes to the indigenous Hausa literary tradition as an illustration of the interface between orality and literacy.</span>
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%K Verbal Art
%K Tale
%K Novel
%K Interface
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53588