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Author:

Scheub, Harold.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Ohio University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xvi, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Storytelling--South Africa.
Oral tradition--South Africa.
Folklore--Political aspects--South Africa.
Apartheid--South Africa.
South Africa--Social life and customs.
South Africa--Politics and government.
South Africa--Colonization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Metaphor: inevitable encounters, tools for analysis -- San metaphor: "--and feel a story in the wind" -- The Nguni artist: the collapsing of time.

ISBN:

0821443321 (electronic)
9780821443323 (electronic)
0821419226 (pb : alk. paper)
9780821419229 (pb : alk. paper)
0821419218 (hc : alk. paper)
9780821419212 (hc : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)489720617

LCCN:

2009051808

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)