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The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance

The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance

Scheub, Harold

Hardcover

African HistoryMythology & FolkloreFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0821419218
ISBN13: 9780821419212
Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr
Published: Aug 15 2010
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 the first in-depth study of oral tradition as a means of survival.

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