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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Duncan Brown |
| ISBN: | 0821413082 9780821413081 0821413090 9780821413098 0852555598 9780852555590 0852555547 9780852555545 |
| OCLC Number: | 41580382 |
| Description: | x, 243 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Making symmetrical knowledge possible: recent trends in the field of southern African oral performance studies / Isabel Hofmeyr -- Obscurity and exegesis in African oral praise poetry / Karin Barber -- Remaking the warrior?: the role of orality in the liberation struggle and in post-apartheid South Africa / Liz Gunner -- (Dis)locating selves: Izibongo and narrative autobiography in South Africa / Judith Lütge Coullie -- The image of the book in Xhosa oral poetry / Jeff Opland -- Orality and modernity in autobiographical representation: the case of Naboth Mokgatle's life story / Thengani H. Ngwenya -- Mandela, Africanism and modernity: a consideration of Long walk to freedom / Michael Chapman -- Orality, literacy and the archive in the making of Kas Maine / Keith Breckenridge -- The emergence of the South African oral-style short story: A.W. Drayson's Tales at the outspan / Craig Mackenzie -- "Different people just have different minds": a personal attempt to understand Ju/'hoan story telling aesthetics / Megan Biesele -- Sister, spouse, lazy woman: commentaries on domestic predicaments by Kiba performers from the Northern Province / Deborah James -- Orality and Christianity: the hymns of Isaiah Shembe & the Church of the Nazarites / Duncan Brown -- Chakide, the teller of secrets: space, song and story in Zulu Maskanda performance / Carol Muller. |
| Other Titles: | Oral literature and performance in southern Africa |
| Responsibility: | edited by Duncan Brown. |
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