1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778416603321

Autore

Scheub Harold

Titolo

The tongue is fire : South Africa storytellers and apartheid / / Harold Scheub

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison : , : University of Wisconsin Press, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

0-585-17619-1

1-282-42405-X

9786612424052

0-299-15093-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 448 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

398/.0968

Soggetti

Storytelling - South Africa

Oral tradition - South Africa

Folklore - Political aspects - South Africa

Apartheid - South Africa

South Africa Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-428) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In the years between the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and the Soweto Uprising of 1976--a period that was both the height of the apartheid system in South Africa and, in retrospect, the beginning of its end--Harold Scheub went to Africa to collect stories.