The Tongue is Fire
South African Storytellers and Apartheid
Published on 15. November 1996
Book
Hardback
544 pages
978-0-299-15090-7 (ISBN)
Description
This work presents the voices of the South African oral tradition - the historians, the poets, the epic-performers, the myth-makers - documenting their enduring faith in the power of the word to sustain tradition in the face of determined efforts to distort or eliminate it.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
1 map, 26 b&w photographs
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
839 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-15090-7 (9780299150907)
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Person
Harold Scheub is professor of African languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. To record oral traditions he has walked more than 6000 miles through South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho. He is the editor of Nongenile Masithathu Zenani's The World and the Word: Tales and Observations from Xhosa Oral Tradition, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and the author of The African Storyteller.