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The tongue is fire :

(Number (ISBN

0299150909

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0299150933

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0585176191

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9780299150907

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9780299150938

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9780585176192

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0299150909

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0299150941

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128242405X

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9780299150907

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9780299150945

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9781282424050

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Title Proper

The tongue is fire :

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[Book]

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South African storytellers and apartheid /

First Statement of Responsibility

Harold Scheub.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Madison :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Wisconsin Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©1996.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxvii, 448 pages) :

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illustrations

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-428) and index.

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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.

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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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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.

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00027486

Title

Tongue is fire.

International Standard Book Number

0299150909

Apartheid-- South Africa.

Folklore-- Political aspects-- South Africa.

Oral tradition-- South Africa.

Storytelling-- South Africa.

Apartheid-- Afrique du Sud.

Art de conter-- Afrique du Sud.

Folklore-- Aspect politique-- Afrique du Sud.

Tradition orale-- Afrique du Sud.

Apartheid

Apartheid-- Afrique du Sud.

Apartheid.

Art de conter-- Afrique du Sud.

Erzählung

Folklore-- Aspect politique-- Afrique du Sud.

Folklore-- Political aspects.

Manners and customs.

Oral tradition.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Folklore & Mythology.

Storytelling.

Tradition orale-- Afrique du Sud.

South Africa, Social life and customs.

Afrique du Sud, Mœurs et coutumes.

Afrique du Sud, Moeurs et coutumes.

South Africa.

Südafrika Staat

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JPQB, JFHF

SOC-- 011000

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Scheub, Harold.

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20201204120707.0

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