The uncoiling python : South African storytellers and resistance /

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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 domina...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Scheub, Harold
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2010.
©2010
Subjects:
Apartheid > South Africa.
Folklore > Political aspects > South Africa.
Oral tradition > South Africa.
Storytelling > South Africa.
Apartheid > Afrique du Sud.
Folklore > Aspect politique > Afrique du Sud.
Tradition orale > Afrique du Sud.
Art de conter > Afrique du Sud.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > African.
Apartheid.
Colonization.
Folklore > Political aspects.
Manners and customs.
Oral tradition.
Politics and government.
Storytelling.
South Africa > Colonization.
South Africa > Politics and government.
South Africa > Social life and customs.
Afrique du Sud > Politique et gouvernement.
South Africa.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Metaphor: inevitable encounters, tools for analysis
  • San metaphor: "
  • and feel a story in the wind"
  • The Nguni artist: the collapsing of time.

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