The uncoiling python : South African storytellers and resistance

The uncoiling python : South African storytellers and resistance / Harold Scheub.

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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Main Author: Scheub, Harold
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2010.
©2010
Subjects:
Apartheid > South Africa.
Folklore > Political aspects > South Africa.
Oral tradition > South Africa.
Storytelling > South Africa.
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.
South Africa
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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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