The Tongue Is Fire South African Storytellers and Apartheid |
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| Author:
| Scheub, Harold |
| ISBN: | 978-0-299-15094-5 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1996 |
| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.