The tongue is fire : South African storytellers and apartheid /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scheub, Harold
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1996.
Colección:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Temas:
Storytelling > South Africa.
Oral tradition > South Africa.
Folklore > Political aspects > South Africa.
Apartheid > South Africa.
Art de conter > Afrique du Sud.
Tradition orale > Afrique du Sud.
Folklore > Aspect politique > Afrique du Sud.
Apartheid > Afrique du Sud.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Apartheid
Folklore > Political aspects
Manners and customs
Oral tradition
Storytelling
Apartheid > Motiv
Erzählung
South Africa > Social life and customs.
Afrique du Sud > Mœurs et coutumes.
South Africa
Afrique du Sud > Moeurs et coutumes.
Südafrika <Staat>
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover13;
  • Contents
  • IIIustrutions
  • Preface
  • Note
  • Introduction: Some Moments, Figures, and Themes in South African History
  • PROLOGUE FOUNDERS OF THE INHERITANCE: 8220;LET ME GO BACK8221;
  • Introduction
  • Ndumiso Bhotomane, Origins of the Xhosa
  • The Development of the Kingdom
  • The State of the Kingdom
  • PART 1 CULTIVATING THE PAST: 8220;THIS IS GOD8217;S PLACE8221;
  • Introduction
  • Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, 8220;The Necessary Clown8221;
  • Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, 8220;The Endless Mountain8221;
  • Hayibo, Mityi8217;s Stepbrother
  • Mityi, the Neglected
  • Mityi, the Creator
  • Mityi, the Queen
  • PART 2 AMBIGUOUS PROMISE: 8220;IT KEEPS ON HAPPENING, IT KEEPS ON HAPPENING8221;
  • Introduction
  • Noplani Gxavu, Malikophu8217;s Daughter
  • Emily Ntsobane, The Deadly Pumpkin
  • PART 3 THE THREATENED DREAM: 8220;THE LAND WAS SEIZED8221;
  • 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 Water8217;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 8220;AN UNCONTROLLABLE FIRE8221;
  • 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: 8220;THE STORY IS PAINFUL8221;
  • 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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