
The Uncoiling Python
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In open insurrections and other subversive activities Africans resisted the daily humiliations of colonial rule, but 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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"An innovative and original blend of broad-based humanistic scholarship with a sharply focused treatment of how a people's oral narrative tradition addresses the traumas of their history." "With this book, Scheub continues his important contribution to the study and preservation of African tales by proposing that the tradition of tale-telling contributed to the subversion of colonial domination and apartheid in South Africa....In addition to providing fascinating information about individual storytellers and their understanding of their craft, Scheub, in his final chapter, writes eloquently about storytellers as repositories of collective memory." (Choice)More details
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- Intro
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Prelude
- The Uncoiling Python
- 1 Metaphor
- Inevitable Encounters, Tools for Analysis
- 2 San Metaphor
- ". . . and feel a story in the wind"
- 3 The Nguni Artist
- The Collapsing of Time
- Postlude
- Surviving 350 Years
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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