The tongue is fire : South Africa storytellers and apartheid / Harold Scheub.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scheub, Harold.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storytelling--South Africa.

Storytelling.

Oral tradition--South Africa.

Oral tradition.

Folklore--Political aspects--South Africa.

Folklore.

Apartheid--South Africa.

Apartheid.

South Africa--Social life and customs.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 448 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

IIIustrutions

Preface

Note

Introduction: Some Moments, Figures, and Themes in South African History

PROLOGUE FOUNDERS OF THE INHERITANCE: "LET ME GO BACK"

Introduction

Ndumiso Bhotomane, Origins of the Xhosa

The Development of the Kingdom

The State of the Kingdom

PART 1 CULTIVATING THE PAST: "THIS IS GOD'S PLACE"

Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, "The Necessary Clown"

Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, "The Endless Mountain"

Hayibo, Mityi's Stepbrother

Mityi, the Neglected

Mityi, the Creator

Mityi, the Queen

PART 2 AMBIGUOUS PROMISE: "IT KEEPS ON HAPPENING, IT KEEPS ON HAPPENING"

Noplani Gxavu, Malikophu's Daughter

Emily Ntsobane, The Deadly Pumpkin

PART 3 THE THREATENED DREAM: "THE LAND WAS SEIZED"

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 Water'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 "AN UNCONTROLLABLE FIRE"

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: "THE STORY IS PAINFUL"

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-428) and index.

ISBN:

9786612424052

9780585176192

0585176191

9781282424050

128242405X

9780299150938

0299150933

OCLC:

44962327

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08776 hdl