LEADER 04627nam 2200721Ia 450 001 996248172003316 005 20240418053128.0 010 $a0-585-17619-1 010 $a1-282-42405-X 010 $a9786612424052 010 $a0-299-15093-3 024 7 $a2027/heb08776 035 $a(CKB)1000000000817131 035 $a(dli)HEB08776 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000260020 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11937402 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000260020 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10191402 035 $a(PQKB)10109564 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444879 035 $a(OCoLC)44962327 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12114 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444879 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10342347 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000011661674 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000817131 100 $a19960408h19961996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe tongue is fire $eSouth Africa storytellers and apartheid /$fHarold Scheub 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aMadison :$cUniversity of Wisconsin Press,$d1996. 210 4$aŠ1996 215 $a1 online resource (xxvii, 448 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-299-15090-9 311 0 $a0-299-15094-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 421-428) and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 327 $aEPILOGUE 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. 330 $aIn the years between the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and the Soweto Uprising of 1976--a period that was both the height of the apartheid system in South Africa and, in retrospect, the beginning of its end--Harold Scheub went to Africa to collect stories. 410 0$aACLS Humanities E-Book. 606 $aStorytelling$zSouth Africa 606 $aOral tradition$zSouth Africa 606 $aFolklore$xPolitical aspects$zSouth Africa 606 $aApartheid$zSouth Africa 607 $aSouth Africa$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aStorytelling 615 0$aOral tradition 615 0$aFolklore$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aApartheid 676 $a398/.0968 700 $aScheub$b Harold$0661243 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248172003316 996 $aThe tongue is fire$92240234 997 $aUNISA