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Tales From An African Storyteller
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Download or read book African Tales written by Gcina Mhlophe and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology includes eight traditional tales from all over Africa. Sumptuous hand-sewn collage artwork decorated with African beads adorns these unforgettable tales of bravery, wisdom, wit and heroic deeds
Book Synopsis Tales from an African Storyteller by : Robert Djan
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.
Book Synopsis The African Storyteller by : Harold Scheub
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:
Download or read book The African Storyteller written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suggests the authority and splendor of storytelling in Africa, from earlier times to the present.
Book Synopsis Things Fall Apart by : Chinua Achebe
Download or read book Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
Book Synopsis A Customized Version of Harold Scheub's the African Storyteller by : Matthew H. Brown
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:
Download or read book Tales from Africa written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from all parts of Africa, these stories for children aged ten and over illustrate the fierce sense of justice inherent in African peoples, their powers of patience and endurance, and their supreme ability as story-tellers.
Book Synopsis The River that Went to the Sky by : Mary Medlicott
Download or read book The River that Went to the Sky written by Mary Medlicott and published by Larousse Kingfisher Chambers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes nine stories based on folklore from various African countries and three original stories, representing the cultural diversity which exists in Africa.
Book Synopsis A Pride of African Tales by : Donna L. Washington
Download or read book A Pride of African Tales written by Donna L. Washington and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of African folktales originating in the storytelling tradition.
Download or read book Talk That Talk written by Linda Goss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1989-11-15 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains almost 100 stories by famous yarn-spinners from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean, ranging from ghost stories to ghetto adventures.
Book Synopsis The Poem in the Story by : Harold Scheub
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.
Book Synopsis The World and the Word by : Nongenile M. Zenani
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.
Download or read book Tales from Africa written by K.P. Kojo and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out how selfish Lion gets his comeuppance, go to a Frog wedding in the Sky Kingdom, discover the days when the earth's creatures were all mixed up and much more in these brilliantly crafted tales which reflect the very best and the very worst of human behaviours. Rich in the folklore of the many different countries of Africa, Ghanaian author, K. P. Kojo brings each story to life with humour and poetry, making them perfect for sharing and reading aloud to children of all ages. The book includes endnotes with a glossary, additional information as well as ideas for activities that children can do to explore the stories further.
Book Synopsis African-American Folktales for Young Readers by : Richard Young
Download or read book African-American Folktales for Young Readers written by Richard Young and published by august house. This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of folktales from the African-American oral tradition, presented as they have been told by professional black storytellers from Rhode Island to Oklahoma.
Download or read book The Storyteller written by Evan Turk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of drought in the Kingdom of Morocco, a storyteller and a boy weave a tale to thwart a Djinn and his sandstorm from destroying their city.
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.
Book Synopsis Stories of Africa by : Gcina Mhlophe
Download or read book Stories of Africa written by Gcina Mhlophe and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mhlophe tells stories from African folklore.
