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The Uncoiling Python
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Author : Harold Scheub
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2010-06-05
The Uncoiling Python written by Harold Scheub and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-05 with Literary Collections categories.
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. In open insurrections and other subversive activities Africans resisted the daily humiliations of colonial rule, but perhaps the most effective and least apparent expression of subversion was through indigenous storytelling and poetic traditions. Harold Scheub has collected the stories and poetry of the Xhosa, Zulu, Swati, and Ndebele peoples to present a fascinating analysis of how the apparently harmless tellers of tales and creators of poetry acted as front-line soldiers.
The Uncoiling Python
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Author : Harold Scheub
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-10
The Uncoiling Python written by Harold Scheub and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-10 with History categories.
The oral and written traditions of the Africans of South Africa have provided an understanding of their past and the way the past relates to the present. These traditions continue to shape the past by the present, and vice versa. From the time colonial forces first came to the region 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 how Africans used oral traditions as a means of survival against European domination. Africans resisted colonial rule from the beginning. They participated in open insurrections and other subversive activities in order to withstand the daily humiliations of colonial rule. Perhaps the most effective and least apparent expression of subversion was through indigenous storytelling and poetic traditions. Harold Scheub has collected the stories and poetry of the Xhosa, Zulu, Swati, and Ndebele peoples to present a fascinating analysis of how the apparently harmless tellers of tales and creators of poetry acted as front-line soldiers.
Trauma Cultural Complexes And Transformation
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Author : Evija Volfa Vestergaard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-06-28
Trauma Cultural Complexes And Transformation written by Evija Volfa Vestergaard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-28 with Psychology categories.
Trauma, Cultural Complexes, and Transformation: Folk Narratives and Present Realities contributes to our understanding of how culturally traumatic events affect present day realities, and suggests the potential for healing by combining theories on psychological trauma, cultural complexes, and transformations. It draws on insight from a range of disciplines, including Jungian psychology, literary criticism, folkloristics, neurosciences, quantum physics, and social studies. Evija Volfa Vestergaard maps folk narratives of human encounters with extra-human entities as communications of cultural traumas suffered by tellers who are embedded in particular historical and geographical settings, focusing on the little-explored globally emerging cultures of Latvia and South Africa, alongside the United States of America. These cultural narratives form a bridge to a discourse on the social, political, and economic issues faced by these countries and the world at large. Vestergaard outlines the parallels between dreams and visions of individuals essential in healing, and the mythological legend genre serving the same function for groups and cultures, demonstrating that the aim of these open-ended communications is not only to reveal hidden truth, but also to stir our imagination about potentialities. Healing of traumas demands a world of global relatedness based on nurturing kinship, and such a transformation begins with imagining. Trauma, Cultural Complexes, and Transformation represents essential reading for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, folklore, psychology, cultural studies and anthropology, as well as Jungian analysts and psychotherapists.
African Heritage Challenges
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Author : Britt Baillie
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-11-27
African Heritage Challenges written by Britt Baillie and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-27 with Social Science categories.
The richness of Africa’s heritage at times stands in stark contrast to the economic, health, political and societal challenges faced. Development is essential but in what forms? For whom? Following whose agendas? At what costs? This book explores how heritage can promote, secure, or undermine sustainable development with special focus on sub-Saharan Africa, and in turn, how this affects conceptions of heritage. The chapters in this volume identify shared challenges, good practices and failures, and use specific case studies to provide detailed insights into varied forms of heritage and heritage defining processes on the continent. By critically analysing the often romanticised discourses of ‘heritage’, ‘community engagement’, and ‘sustainable development’ the volume suggests ways of harnessing aspects of heritage to tackle some of the socio-economic and political pressures facing heritage practices on the continent, including the legacies of colonialism.
The Imaginative Vision Of Abdilatif Abdalla S Voice Of Agony
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Author : Abdilatif Abdalla
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2024-01-30
The Imaginative Vision Of Abdilatif Abdalla S Voice Of Agony written by Abdilatif Abdalla and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-30 with History categories.
First English literary translation of Abdilatif Abadalla's influential Voice of Agony
The Nation S Bounty
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Author : Nontsizi Mgqwetho
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2007
The Nation S Bounty written by Nontsizi Mgqwetho and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
A beautiful study of the incredible life of Nontsizi Mgqwetho For nearly a decade Nontsizi Mgqwetho contributed poetry to a Johannesburg newspaper, Umteteli wa Bantu, the first and only female poet to produce a substantial body of work in Xhosa. Apart from what is revealed in these writings, very little is known about her life. She explodes on the scene with her swaggering, urgent, confrontational woman's poetry on 23 October 1920, sends poems to the newspaper regularly throughout the three years from 1924 to 1926, withdraws for two years until two final poems appear in December 1928 and January 1929, then disappears into the shrouding silence she first burst from. Nothing more is heard from her, but the poetry she left immediately claims for her the status of one of the greatest literary artists ever to write in Xhosa, an anguished voice of an urban woman confronting male dominance, ineffective leadership, black apathy, white malice and indifference, economic exploitation and a tragic history of nineteenth-century territorial and cultural dispossession. The Nation's Bounty contains the original poems alongside English translations by Jeff Opland. It was the first of a number of new titles planned for release in the African Treasury Series, a premier collection of texts by South Africa's pioneers of African literature and written in indigenous languages. First published by Wits University Press in the 1940s, the series provided a voice for the voiceless and celebrated African culture, history and heritage. It continues to make a contribution by supporting current efforts to empower and develop the status of African languages in South Africa.
African Traditional Religion In South Africa
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Author : David Chidester
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1997-08-07
African Traditional Religion In South Africa written by David Chidester and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-08-07 with Religion categories.
In a changing South Africa, recovering the meaning and power of African tradition is a matter of crucial importance. This work participates in that recovery by providing a comprehensive guide to research on the indigenous religious heritage of this dynamic country. Detailed reviews of over 600 books, articles, and theses are offered along with introductory essays and detailed annotations that define the field of study. This work plus two forthcoming volumes, Christianity in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography and Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography will become the standard reference work on South African religions. Scholars and students in Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, History, and African Studies will find this set particularly useful. This work organizes and annotates all the relevant literature on Khoisan, Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho-Tswana, Swazi, Tsonga, and Venda traditions. The annotations are concise yet detailed essays written in an engaging and accessible style and supported by an exhaustive index, which comprise a full and complex profile of African traditional religion in South Africa.
The Nostradamus Prophecies
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Author : Mario Reading
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2009-12-01
The Nostradamus Prophecies written by Mario Reading and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-01 with Fiction categories.
From the No. 1 bestselling author of Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the Future Nostradamus wrote a thousand prophecies. Only 942 have survived. What happened to the missing predictions? And what secrets did they contain to make it necessary for them to remain hidden? Adam Sabir, a writer, sets off to unearth the missing prophecies. He is accompanied by enigmatic Achor Bale, a member of an ancient secret society that has dedicated itself to the protection of the 'Three Antichrists' foretold in Nostradamus's verses: Napoleon, Adolf Hitler, and the unnamed 'one still to come'... The pair embark on a terrifying chase through the ancient Romany encampments of France in a quest to locate the missing verses. If they are successful, life will never be the same for Sabir, Bale - or the rest of the world.
The Antichrist Trilogy
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Author : Mario Reading
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2013-02-01
The Antichrist Trilogy written by Mario Reading and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-01 with Fiction categories.
From the No. 1 bestselling author of Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the Future The Antichrist Trilogy, now collected in one thrilling e-book... The Nostradamus Prophecies Adam Sabir is a writer desperate to revive his flagging career; Achor Bale is a member of an ancient secret society that has dedicated itself to the protection and support of the 'Three Antichrists' foretold in Nostradamus's verses - Napoleon, Adolf Hitler, and the 'one still to come'... The pair embark on a terrifying chase through the ancient Romany encampments of France in a quest to locate the missing verses. The Mayan Codex Adam Sabir has discovered the missing quatrains of Nostradamus, and the events they foretell are coming true. But there's one prophecy he can't fully decipher, and it warns of the imminent arrival of the Third Antichrist. As Sabir puzzles over the riddle, a descendant of the Mayans begins a dangerous journey to deliver a sacred codex which will reveal the secret of Nostradamus' prophecy... The Third Antichrist Scholar Adam Sabir has decoded the identity of the Third Antichrist. He alone knows the one who can prevent this tyrant's rise. The fate of the world is in his hands...The countdown to Armageddon has begun.
The Dead Will Arise
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Author : Jeff Peires
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Release Date : 2013-06-07
The Dead Will Arise written by Jeff Peires and has been published by Jonathan Ball Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-07 with History categories.
The Dead Will Arise tells the story of Nongqawuse, the young Xhosa girl whose prophecy of the resurrection of the dead lured an entire people to death by starvation. The Great Cattle-Killing of 1856-57, which she initiated, is one of the most extraordinary and misunderstood events in South Africa's history. Jeff Peires was the first historian to draw on all available sources, from oral tradition and obscure Xhosa texts to the private letters and secret reports of police informers and colonial officials, and the original edition of The Dead Will Arise won the 1989 Alan Paton Sunday Times award for non-fiction.