the Kiowa people (Kiowa Oral Tradition, 50.) During each of these epidemic, mortality rates were commonly around 50-90%, however according to an oral tradition, it could have been much worse. A trickster named Saynday was able to convince the devilish smallpox character to go to the Pawnee first, saving lives and making him a hero. This is not always the case, in some occasions Saynday makes things worst by accident. Despite this he is still an essential part of many Kiowa oral tradition. He is a vital
literature of vernacular (The Vernacular Tradition 3). Vernacular can be defined as church songs, tall tales, work songs, blues, poetry or poems, sermons, stories, and hip hop songs. Vernacular is a part of the oral tradition of black expression such as dances, musical performances, stage shows, and visual arts. Most of the vernacular stories come from the bible that occur to African American literary studies to forward the rhetorical aims (3). The reading of the song called “Promises of Freedom”
Originating in the 1920’s, the American hard-boiled detective story, or the mystery novel, has been revered by numerous enthusiasts of popular fiction. The detective story “begins with the introduction of the detective, then sets him into action in pursuit of a mystery which turns into a crime, trails him through a convoluted investigation, and concludes with the solution of the crime” (). The detective has to experience the corrupt underworld within an urban society. It is his mission to somehow
to perform a necessary role in the three different stories. Loki is a complex, confusing, and ambivalent figure who has been the callous for countless unsolved scholarly controversies and has elicited more problems than solutions (Schnurbeinin 109). Schnurbeinin notes that Snorri Sturluson initially wrote the “Poetic Edda” as a textbook of Skaldic verse. The word Skaldic is a Norse term that refers to the English word for Poet. His
Midnight Robber mixes the conventions of the science fiction with Afro-Caribbean symbols and history. The inhabitants of Toussaint have not completely forgotten the history out of which they arose on Earth. Jonkanoo has become a holiday during which they celebrate the landing of the Marryshow Corporation nation ships that had brought their ancestors to Toussaint two centuries before: “Time to remember the way their forefathers had toiled and sweated together: Taino Carib and Arawak; African; Asian;