Uncoiling Python

South African Storytellers and Resistance

Autor: Harold Scheub

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Ohio University Press

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Isidore Okpewho -- State University of New York Distinguished Professor of Africana Studies, English...

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Autor

Harold Scheub

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2010

strony

256

EAN

9780821419229

ISBN

0821419226

Enbook ID

04935663

Wydawca

Ohio University Press

Waga

386

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 15

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Isidore Okpewho -- State University of New York Distinguished Professor of Africana Studies, English, and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University.The oral and written traditions of the Africans of South Africa have provided an understanding of their past and the way the past relates to the present. These traditions continue to shape the past by the present, and vice versa. From the time colonial forces first came to the region 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 the first in-depth study of how Africans used oral traditions as a means of survival against European domination..Africans resisted colonial rule from the beginning. They participated in open insurrections and other subversive activities in order to withstand the daily humiliations of colonial rule. Perhaps the most effective and least apparent expression of subversion was through indigenous storytelling and poetic traditions. Harold Scheub has collected the stories and poetry of the Xhosa, Zulu, Swati, and Ndebele peoples to present a fascinating analysis of how the apparently harmless tellers of tales and creators of poetry acted as front-line soldiers.

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