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1 online resource (xxvii, 448 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-428) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover13; -- Contents -- IIIustrutions -- Preface -- Note -- Introduction: Some Moments, Figures, and Themes in South African History -- PROLOGUE FOUNDERS OF THE INHERITANCE: 8220;LET ME GO BACK8221; -- Introduction -- Ndumiso Bhotomane, Origins of the Xhosa -- The Development of the Kingdom -- The State of the Kingdom -- PART 1 CULTIVATING THE PAST: 8220;THIS IS GOD8217;S PLACE8221; -- Introduction -- Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, 8220;The Necessary Clown8221; -- Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, 8220;The Endless Mountain8221; -- Hayibo, Mityi8217;s Stepbrother -- Mityi, the Neglected -- Mityi, the Creator -- Mityi, the Queen -- PART 2 AMBIGUOUS PROMISE: 8220;IT KEEPS ON HAPPENING, IT KEEPS ON HAPPENING8221; -- Introduction -- Noplani Gxavu, Malikophu8217;s Daughter -- Emily Ntsobane, The Deadly Pumpkin -- PART 3 THE THREATENED DREAM: 8220;THE LAND WAS SEIZED8221; -- Introduction -- 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 Water8217;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 8220;AN UNCONTROLLABLE FIRE8221; -- Introduction -- 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: 8220;THE STORY IS PAINFUL8221; -- Introduction -- 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. |
| 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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Storytelling -- South Africa.
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Storytelling. |
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South Africa. |
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Oral tradition -- South Africa.
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Oral tradition. |
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Folklore -- Political aspects -- South Africa.
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Folklore -- Political aspects. |
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Folklore. |
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Apartheid -- South Africa.
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Apartheid. |
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South Africa -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Scheub, Harold. Tongue is fire. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1996 0299150909 (DLC) 96017774 (OCoLC)34598131 |
| ISBN |
0585176191 (electronic book) |
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9780585176192 (electronic book) |
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9780299150938 (electronic book) |
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0299150933 (electronic book) |
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0299150909 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0299150941 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780299150945 |
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9780299150907 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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128242405X |
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9781282424050 |
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