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Author : Phyllis Savory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Zulu Fireside Tales written by Phyllis Savory and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Webster
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868425703
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)
Download or read book At the Fireside written by Roger Webster and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Webster published his first volume of At the Fireside stories in 2001. It became an overnight bestseller and he went on to write three more books filled with magnificent stories from southern African. Now, more than ten years later, Roger Webster is back with another, all new volume of fireside tales of people and events that have shaped this remarkable country. The author brings to life anecdotes from the country's past, either forgotten or, perhaps, left untold as a result of political prejudice, These are tales of courage and failure, honour and greed, hope and despair, unexpected and extraordinary achievements but, ultimately, stories of real people.
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 : Phyllis Savory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Congo fireside tales written by Phyllis Savory and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Webster
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864865366
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)
Download or read book At the Fireside, Vol. 2 written by Roger Webster and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this work are the tales of bravery and honour, greed and failure, hope and despair, but ultimately the stories of real people who went beyond the expected, and of events that surpassed the ordinary.
Author : Minnie Postma
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292737300
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Tales from the Basotho written by Minnie Postma and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They say that the eldest of the chief's daughters..." So begins a tale from the Basotho, unfolded by the meager light of a dung fire that burns smokily behind the reed screen sheltering the entrance of the hut. The old ones of the tribe wait until dark before telling their stories, for everyone knows horns will grow from the head of one who tells a story during daylight hours. Tales from the Basotho abounds with elements familiar to folk narrative. The heroes and heroines are the chiefs and their wives, their sons and their daughters. Fantastic creatures frequent the narratives. exhibiting their awful powers. Rustic peace and beauty pervade the stories, as Minnie Postma amply demonstrates in her versions of the tales. Something fearful may be occurring—the dreaded Koeoko pulling the only son of the chief under water—but, at the same time, girls with babies tied to their backs are searching for edible bulbs in the veld, and an old woman dreams in the gentle sunlight in front of the huts. These tales from the Basotho are for entertainment only. There is a tabu against telling tales while the sun shines, because daylight hours must be saved for work. The telling itself is the· reason the story exists, for the audience is already aware of the outcome of each tale. As Wm. Hugh Jansen emphasizes in his foreword, "text" and "context" are often easily interpreted and made accessible in a translation, but Tales from the Basotho is ultimately successful for its rendering of "texture." And texture is doubly hard to convey when the telling itself is of primary importance. Minnie Postma and Susie McDermid have transferred the art of the Basotho raconteur onto the printed page. All the simple, understandable formulas, exclamations, and repetitions used so skillfully by the native storyteller are present. Rhythm is an important element in the tales, and a word, a phrase, even a whole paragraph will be repeated until the rhythm satisfies the storyteller, in tum increasing the appreciation of the listeners.
Author : Nick Greaves
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1920572686
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)
Download or read book When Bat was a Bird written by Nick Greaves and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does Monkey fear Leopard? Why does the Reed Warbler babble? How did Jabulani outwit the Lion? These and other intriguing questions are answered in When Bat was a Bird. Twenty four fresh and exciting stories feature memorable creatures both real and magical. Information boxes provide supporting information about the people, animals, reptiles, insects and birds of Africa. Over 90 full-colour illustrations bring the wealth and beauty of African wildlife alive for children. In his latest collection author Nick Greaves draws once more from the lore, mythology and history of various southern African tribes to relate a new collection of tales that is bound to become a firm favourite along with the highly successful When Hippo was Hairy, When Lion could Fly and When Elephant was King.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401204071
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Readings of the Particular written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present collection aims at throwing light on transculturality and the identities and masks that people put on, in writing as much as in life, in an age of global levelling and the struggle for a particular place in a postcolonial world. Topics covered include: North African identity in France; cultural citizenship and the Asian diaspora; novels of beur self-identity by Maghrebi immigrants in France; Scottish fiction, Britain and Empire; memory, amnesia, and the re-invention of the past in South Africa, the Caribbean and elsewhere; borders, necrophilia and history in Southern African fiction; encodings of female control; spectating in black documentary cinema; theatre, performance, and the Western presence in Africa; masks, history, transtextuality, and other aspects of Irish poetry and drama; the masking and unmasking of identity in the African-American novel; violence and Titus Andronicus in black Nova Scotian poetry; notions of the national and of indigeneity in contemporary Canadian drama; Native Canadians, space, and the city. Authors and artists treated include: William Boyd; André Brink; George Elliott Clarke; David Dabydeen; Ralph Ellison; Bessie Head; Seamus Heaney; Tomson Highway; Isaac Julien; Daniel David Moses; Paul Muldoon; Albert Murray; Jean Rhys; Sir Walter Scott; Robert Louis Stevenson; Richard Wright; and W.B. Yeats.
Author : Phyllis Savory
Publisher : Hastings House Book Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Congo Fireside Tales written by Phyllis Savory and published by Hastings House Book Publishers. This book was released on 1962 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith Inggs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441167609
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Translation Studies in Africa written by Judith Inggs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is a huge continent with multicultural nations, where translation and interpretation are everyday occurrences. Translation studies has flourished in Africa in the last decade, with countries often having several official languages. The primary objective of this volume is to bring together research articles on translation and interpreting studies in Africa, written mainly, but not exclusively, by researchers living and working in the region. The focus is on the translation of literature and the media, and on the uses of interpreting. It provides a clear idea of the state and direction of research, and highlights research that is not commonly disseminated in North Africa and Europe. This book is an essential text for students and researchers working in translation studies, African studies and in African linguistics.
Author : Phyllis Savory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book African Fireside Tales: Xhosa. Matabele. Batswana written by Phyllis Savory and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Callaway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Izinganekwane written by Henry Callaway and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phyllis Savory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fireside Tales of the Hare and His Friends written by Phyllis Savory and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yvette Hutchison
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184701187X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Dance written by Yvette Hutchison and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African dance is discussed here in its global as well as local contexts as a powerful vehicle of aesthetic and cultural exchange and influence.
Author : Roger Webster
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868425797
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)
Download or read book At the Fireside - Volume 1 written by Roger Webster and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Fireside was born out of the need to preserve, retell and rekindle some of the stories of events and lives that have shaped and coloured South Africa. This book recalls our history and enables the reader to relive the stories of our sometimes forgotten past. These are tales of bravery and honour, greed and failure, hope and despair, but ultimately the stories are of real people who went beyond the expected and of events that surpassed the ordinary.
Author : Phyllis Savory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Swazi Fireside Tales written by Phyllis Savory and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linzi Glass
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 162779686X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)
Download or read book The Year the Gypsies Came written by Linzi Glass and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in apartheid South Africa, this powerful and lyrically written novel is Linzi Glass's debut. As twelve-year-old Emily Iris explains it, her mother and father have always been eager to take in travelers and vagabonds, relying on the presence of outsiders to ease the tension between them. Emily has her gentle older sister, Sarah, and Buza, the old Zulu nightwatchman, for company and comfort. But her parents' continuing discontent leads them to welcome some peculiar strangers. One spring, a family of wanderers-a wildlife photographer, his wife, and two boys-comes to stay, and their strange, compelling, and dangerous presence will leave the Iris family infinitely changed.
