04627nam 2200721Ia 450 99624817200331620240418053128.00-585-17619-11-282-42405-X97866124240520-299-15093-32027/heb08776(CKB)1000000000817131(dli)HEB08776(SSID)ssj0000260020(PQKBManifestationID)11937402(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000260020(PQKBWorkID)10191402(PQKB)10109564(MiAaPQ)EBC3444879(OCoLC)44962327(MdBmJHUP)muse12114(Au-PeEL)EBL3444879(CaPaEBR)ebr10342347(MiU)MIU01000000000000011661674(EXLCZ)99100000000081713119960408h19961996 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe tongue is fire South Africa storytellers and apartheid /Harold Scheub1st ed.Madison :University of Wisconsin Press,1996.©19961 online resource (xxvii, 448 pages) illustrationsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-299-15090-9 0-299-15094-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-428) and index.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 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.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.ACLS Humanities E-Book.StorytellingSouth AfricaOral traditionSouth AfricaFolklorePolitical aspectsSouth AfricaApartheidSouth AfricaSouth AfricaSocial life and customsStorytellingOral traditionFolklorePolitical aspectsApartheid398/.0968Scheub Harold661243MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996248172003316The tongue is fire2240234UNISA