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Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The African Storyteller written by Harold Scheub and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew H. Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781524921989
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (219 download)
Download or read book A Customized Version of Harold Scheub's the African Storyteller written by Matthew H. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew H. Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781524921989
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (219 download)
Download or read book A Customized Version of Harold Scheub's the African Storyteller written by Matthew H. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299209431
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book African Tales written by Harold Scheub and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2005-04-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest work from Harold Scheub, one of the world's leading scholars of African folktales, is the broadest collection yet assembled with tales from the entire continent of Africa, north to south. It brings together mythic, fantastic, and coming-of-age tales, some transcribed more than a hundred years ago, others dating to modern-day Africa. Scheub includes the work of storytellers from major African language groups, as well as many storytellers whose work is not often heard outside of Africa. This anthology offers a classroom-ready collection that should appeal to any scholar of African literature and culture. Realizing that these tales are part of a dying art, Scheub writes for the inner ear in everyone, bringing an oral tradition to life in written form.
Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Meanings written by Harold Scheub and published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821443321
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Uncoiling Python written by Harold Scheub and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Matthew H. Brown
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478021500
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Indirect Subjects written by Matthew H. Brown and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Indirect Subjects, Matthew H. Brown analyzes the content of the prolific Nigerian film industry's mostly direct-to-video movies alongside local practices of production and circulation to show how screen media play spatial roles in global power relations. Scrutinizing the deep structural and aesthetic relationship between Nollywood, as the industry is known, and Nigerian state television, Brown tracks how several Nollywood films, in ways similar to both state television programs and colonial cinema productions, invite local spectators to experience liberal capitalism not only as a form of exploitation but as a set of expectations about the future. This mode of address, which Brown refers to as “periliberalism,” sustains global power imbalances by locating viewers within liberalism but distancing them from its processes and benefits. Locating the wellspring of this hypocrisy in the British Empire's practice of indirect rule, Brown contends that culture industries like Nollywood can sustain capitalism by isolating ordinary African people, whose labor and consumption fuel it, from its exclusive privileges.
Author : Nongenile M. Zenani
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299133133
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)
Download or read book The World and the Word written by Nongenile M. Zenani and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master storyteller of the Xhosa people of South Africa, Nongenile Masithathu Zenani gives us an unprecedented view of an oral society from within. Twenty-four of her complex and beautiful tales about birth, puberty, marriage, and work, as told to the renowned collector of African oral tradition, Harold Scheub, are gathered here. Accompanying the stories are Zenani’s detailed commentaries and analyses and Scheub’s striking photographs of her in performance. The combination of these historical and cultural observations with a richly symbolic collection of tales from a single traditional storyteller make The World and the Word a remarkable document. “The storyteller’s materials are simple,” Zenani told Scheub, “the world, and the word.” She presents to us the entire world of the Xhosa people, how they first came to be, the origins of their customs, how they order their world and deal with transgressors, how they manage all of life’s transitions from birth to death. She depicts both the world as it exists and as it is shaped in the words of the storyteller. Inheriting tales from the Xhosa tradition, Zenani has transformed them into imaginative new stories marked by her own artistry. Scheub’s introduction to The World and the Word discusses Xhosa oral tradition and Zenani’s particular characteristics as an artist within that tradition; Zenani’s personal history and her work as both a storyteller and a healer; and Scheub’s friendship with her and his role in recording her legacy.
Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299290735
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Trickster and Hero written by Harold Scheub and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trickster and the hero, found in so many of the world’s oral traditions, are seemingly opposed but often united in one character. Trickster and Hero provides a comparative look at a rich array of world oral traditions, folktales, mythologies, and literatures—from The Odyssey, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Beowulf to Native American and African tales. Award-winning folklorist Harold Scheub explores the “Trickster moment,” the moment in the story when the tale, the teller, and the listener are transformed: we are both man and woman, god and human, hero and villain. Scheub delves into the importance of trickster mythologies and the shifting relationships between tricksters and heroes. He examines protagonists that figure centrally in a wide range of oral narrative traditions, showing that the true hero is always to some extent a trickster as well. The trickster and hero, Scheub contends, are at the core of storytelling, and all the possibilities of life are there: we are taken apart and rebuilt, dismembered and reborn, defeated and renewed.
Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195124576
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (245 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of African Mythology written by Harold Scheub and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fascinating and revealing tales captures the sprawling diversity of African mythology. Four hundred alphabetically arranged entries touch on virtually every aspect of African religious belief, from Africa's great epic themes (dualistic gods, divine tricksters, creator gods, and heroes) to descriptions of major mythic systems (the Dogon, the Asante, and the San) and beyond. Scheub covers the entire continent, from the mouth of the Nile to the shores of the Cape of Good Hope, including North African as well as sub-Saharan cultures. His retellings provide information about the respective belief system, the main characters, and related stories or variants. Perhaps most important, Scheub emphasizes the role of mythmaker as storyteller--as a performer for an audience. He studies various techniques, from the rhythmic movements of a Zulu mythmaker's hands to the way a storyteller will play on the familiar context of other myths within her cultural context. An invaluable bridge to the richly diverse oral cultures of Africa, this collection uncovers a place where story and storyteller, tradition and performance, all merge.
Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299182134
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)
Download or read book The Poem in the Story written by Harold Scheub and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002-12-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fact and fiction meet at the boundaries, the betwixt and between where transformations occur. This is the area of ambiguity where fiction and fact become endowed with meaning, and this is the area—where ambiguity, irony, and metaphor join forces—that Harold Scheub exposes in all its nuanced and evocative complexity in The Poem in the Story. In a career devoted to exploring the art of the African storyteller, Scheub has conducted some of the most interesting and provocative investigations into nonverbal aspects of storytelling, the complex relationship between artist and audience, and, most dramatically, the role played by poetry in storytelling. This book is his most daring effort yet, an unconventional work that searches out what makes a story artistically engaging and emotionally evocative, the metaphorical center that Scheub calls "the poem in the story." Drawing on extensive fieldwork in southern Africa and decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Scheub develops an original approach—a blend of field notes, diary entries, photographs, and texts of stories and poems—that guides readers into a new way of viewing, even experiencing, meaning in a story. Though this work is largely focused on African storytelling, its universal applications emerge when Scheub brings the work of storytellers as different as Shakespeare and Faulkner into the discussion.
Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher : UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press
ISBN 13 : 9781934795200
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (952 download)
Download or read book There was No Lightning written by Harold Scheub and published by UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isidore Okpewho
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253207104
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book African Oral Literature written by Isidore Okpewho and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-22 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ". . . its pages come alive with wonderful illustrative material coupled with sensitve and insightful commentary." —Reviews in Anthropology " . . . the scope, breadth, and lucidity of this excellent study confirm that Okpewho is undoubtedly the most important authority writing on African oral literature right now . . . " —Research in African Literatures "Truly a tour de force of individual scholarship . . . " —World Literature Today " . . . excellent . . . " —African Affairs " . . . a thorough synthesis of the main issues of oral literature criticism, as well as a grounding in experienced fieldwork, a wide-ranging theoretical base, and a clarity of argument rare among academics." —Multicultural Review "This is a breathtakingly ambitious project . . . " —Harold Scheub " . . . a definitive accounting of the evidence of living oral traditions in Africa today. Professor Okpewho's authority as an expert in this important new field is unrivaled." —Gregory Nagy "Isidore Okpewho's African Oral Literature is a marvelous piece of scholarship and wide-ranging research. It presents the most comprehensive survey of the field of oral literature in Africa." —Emmanuel Obiechina " . . . a tour de force of scholarship in which Okpewho casts his net across the African continent, searching for its verbal forms through voluminous recent writings and presents African oral literature in a new voice, proclaiming the literariness of African folklore." —Dan Ben-Amos "This is an outstanding book by a scholar whose work has already influenced how African literature should be conceived. . . . Professor Okpewho is a scholar with a special talent to nurture scholarship in others. After this work, African literature will never be the same." —Mazisi Kunene Isidore Okpewho, for many years Professor of English at the University of Ibadan, is one of the handful of African scholars who has facilitated the growth of African oral literature to its status today as a literary enterprise concerned with the artistic foundations of human culture. This comprehensive critical work firmly establishes oral literature as a landmark of high artistic achievement and situates it within the broader framework of contemporary African culture.
Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299159337
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)
Download or read book Story written by Harold Scheub and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the essence of story? How does the storyteller convey meaning? Leading scholar Harold Scheub tackles these questions and more, demonstrating that the power of story lies in emotion. While others have focused on the importance of structure in the art of story, Scheub emphasizes emotion. He shows how an expert storyteller uses structural elements—image, rhythm, and narrative—to shape a story's fundamental emotional content. The storyteller uses traditional images, repetition, and linear narrative to move the audience past the story’s surface of morals and ideas, and make connections to their past, present, and future. To guide the audience on this emotional journey is the storyteller’s art. The traditional stories from South African, Xhosa, and San cultures included in the book lend persuasive support to Scheub’s. These stories speak for themselves, demonstrating that a skilled performer can stir emotions despite the obstacles of space, time, and culture.
Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299150933
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)
Download or read book The Tongue Is Fire written by Harold Scheub and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. With tape-recorder and camera in hand, Scheub registered the testaments of Swati, Xhosa, Ndebele, and Zulu storytellers, farming people who lived in the remote reaches of rural South Africa. While young people fought in the streets of Soweto and South African writers made the world aware of apartheid’s evils, the rural storytellers resisted apartheid in their own way, using myth and metaphor to preserve their traditions and confront their oppressors. For more than 20 years, Scheub kept the promise he made to the storytellers to publish his translations of their stories only when freedom came to South Africa. The Tongue Is Fire presents these voices of 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. These texts are a tribute to the storytellers who have always, in periods of crisis, exercised their art to inspire their own people.
Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The African Storyteller written by Harold Scheub and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The stories in this collection range geographically from northern Africa to the south, from the east to the west. Of the sixty stories, forty-seven societies in thirty-five countries are represented ... The stories have been taken from various collections, including those of nineteenth century travellers and those of contemporary folklorists"--Preface.
Author : Robert Djan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721091768
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Tales from an African Storyteller written by Robert Djan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In only the light of the moon, the elders of the village would gather the children and household and tell them stories, imaginary or real, as they listened intently. It was entertainment and the village household were captivated." Tales from an African Storyteller, will take you on an imaginary journey. Adults and children will be captivated by the tall tales made up of interesting stories that will urge you on till you finish reading all ten stories in this book. Enjoy this quick read.
