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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scheub, Harold, author.

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.

South Africa--Politics and government.

South Africa--Colonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 domination in South Africa. From the time colonial forces first came to southern Africa 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

Contents:

Metaphor: inevitable encounters, tools for analysis

San metaphor: "

and feel a story in the wind"

The Nguni artist: the collapsing of time.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780821443323

0821443321

OCLC:

794698922