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Author Scheub, Harold.

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

Publication Info. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2010]
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012.
©2010
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages :) : illustrations
text file
Note OldControl:muse9780821443323.
Bibliography 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.
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.
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Subject Apartheid -- South Africa.
Apartheid.
South Africa.
Folklore -- Political aspects -- South Africa.
Folklore -- Political aspects.
Folklore.
Oral tradition -- South Africa.
Oral tradition.
Storytelling -- South Africa.
Storytelling.
South Africa -- Colonization.
Colonization.
South Africa -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
South Africa -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Other Form: Print version: Scheub, Harold. Uncoiling python. Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2009051808
ISBN 9780821443323 (electronic book)
0821443321 (electronic book)
9780821419212 (hc ; alkaline paper)
0821419218 (hc ; alkaline paper)
9780821419229 (pb ; alkaline paper)
0821419226 (pb ; alkaline paper)

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