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UNINA9910955138003321 |
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Autore |
Scheub Harold |
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Titolo |
The tongue is fire : South Africa storytellers and apartheid / / Harold Scheub |
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Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1996 |
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ISBN |
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9786612424052 |
9780585176192 |
0585176191 |
9781282424050 |
128242405X |
9780299150938 |
0299150933 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxvii, 448 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Storytelling - South Africa |
Oral tradition - South Africa |
Folklore - Political aspects - South Africa |
Apartheid - South Africa |
South Africa Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-428) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- IIIustrutions -- Preface -- Note -- Introduction: Some Moments, Figures, and Themes in South African History -- PROLOGUE FOUNDERS OF THE INHERITANCE: "LET ME GO BACK" -- Introduction -- Ndumiso Bhotomane, Origins of the Xhosa -- The Development of the Kingdom -- The State of the Kingdom -- PART 1 CULTIVATING THE PAST: "THIS IS GOD'S PLACE" -- Introduction -- Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, "The Necessary Clown" -- Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, "The Endless Mountain" -- Hayibo, Mityi's Stepbrother -- Mityi, the Neglected -- Mityi, the Creator -- Mityi, the Queen -- PART 2 AMBIGUOUS PROMISE: "IT KEEPS ON HAPPENING, IT KEEPS ON HAPPENING" -- Introduction -- Noplani Gxavu, Malikophu's Daughter -- Emily Ntsobane, The Deadly Pumpkin -- PART 3 THE |
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THREATENED DREAM: "THE LAND WAS SEIZED" -- Introduction -- Mdukiswa Tyabashe, So Tall He Touched the Heavens -- Mdukiswa Tyabashe, All the Land of the Mpondomise -- From the Blue Region -- The Hunter and Master of Magic -- The Dreamer -- Struggle for the Throne -- The Sacred Snake -- The Woman Who Would Be King -- Shaka Invades the Mpondomise -- A Land Divided -- Conflict with the Thembu -- Like a Woman Carrying Children on Her Back -- Freedom-fighter -- Flight -- Mtshophane Mamba, Snapping at the Water's Foam -- Ndumiso Bhotomane, The Land Was Seized: The Ngcayechibi War of 1877 -- Ashton Ngcama, The Land Has Grown Old -- Ashton Ngcama, Tears in Your Stomach -- PART 4 UNCERTAIN HOPE: LIGHTING "AN UNCONTROLLABLE FIRE" -- Introduction -- Ndumiso Bhotomane, She Spoke about the Resurrection: Nongqawuse and the Cattle Killing of 1857 -- Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, No Person Arose -- Sondoda Ngcobo, Chakijana, the Trickster -- Sondoda Ngcobo, Chakijana, Zulu Freedom-fighter -- Frederick William Calverley, So Everybody Was After Chakijana -- P.W. van Niekerk, The Whites Were to Be Killed. |
EPILOGUE SEIZERS OF THE INHERITANCE: "THE STORY IS PAINFUL" -- Introduction -- Nomusa Makhoba, Jabulani Alone -- Death of the Father -- Destitute -- Seizers of the Inheritance -- Coming of Age -- Death of the Mother -- Independence -- Return -- Jabulani Alone -- Magagamela Koko, Age and Death -- When You Are Grey -- Now I Am Spent -- Notes -- Sources -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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