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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Scheub Harold"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The uncoiling python : South African storytellers and resistance / / Harold Scheub"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Athens : , : Ohio University Press, , [2010]"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2010"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"0-8214-4332-1"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (257 p.)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"398.20968"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Storytelling - South Africa"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Oral tradition - South Africa"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Folklore - Political aspects - South Africa"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Apartheid - South Africa"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[{"$nulls":4},"South Africa Social life and customs"]
[{"$nulls":4},"South Africa Politics and government"]
[{"$nulls":4},"South Africa Colonization"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Metaphor: inevitable encounters, tools for analysis -- San metaphor: \"--and feel a story in the wind\" -- The Nguni artist: the collapsing of time."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","There are many collections of African oral traditions, but few as carefully organized as The Uncoiling Python. Harold Scheub, one of the world's leading scholars of African oral traditions and folklore, explores the ways in which oral traditions have served to combat and subvert colonial domination in South Africa. From the time colonial forces first came to southern Africa in 1487, oral and written traditions have been a bulwark against what became 350 years of colonial rule, characterized by the racist policies of apartheid. The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance is"]