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The Uncoiling Python

Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821419226
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Uncoiling Python written by Harold Scheub and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Uncoiling Python

Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821443321
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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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.

African Music

Author : Francis Bebey
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 161374661X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book African Music written by Francis Bebey and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging and enlightening, this guide explores African music's forms, musicians, instruments, and place in the life of the people. A discography classified by country, theme, group, and instrument is also included.

The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdalla’s Voice of Agony

Author : Abdilatif Abdalla
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472056611
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdalla’s Voice of Agony written by Abdilatif Abdalla and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First English literary translation of Abdilatif Abadalla's influential Voice of Agony

There was No Lightning

Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher : UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press
ISBN 13 : 9781934795200
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (952 download)

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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:

Nation's Bounty

Author : Jeff Opland
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1776143183
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Nation's Bounty written by Jeff Opland and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Trauma, Cultural Complexes, and Transformation

Author : Evija Volfa Vestergaard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131529463X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Trauma, Cultural Complexes, and Transformation written by Evija Volfa Vestergaard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Britt Baillie
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811543666
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book African Heritage Challenges written by Britt Baillie and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Nation's Bounty

Author : Nontsizi Mgqwetho
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1868144518
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book The Nation's Bounty written by Nontsizi Mgqwetho and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : David Chidester
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313032254
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book African Traditional Religion in South Africa written by David Chidester and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-08-07 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Mario Reading
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429925868
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Nostradamus Prophecies written by Mario Reading and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient secret...A deadly conspiracy. For reader's of Raymond Khoury's The Last Templar, or the works of Dan Brown, this high-octane commercial thriller tells of a hunt for the lost prophecies of Nostradamus and the two men who will do anything to discover their secrets. Nostradamus wrote a thousand prophecies. Only 942 have survived. What happened to the missing quatrains? What secrets did they contain to make it necessary for them to remain hidden? And why did Nostradamus leave his daughter a sealed container in his will? These questions drive two men with very different desires. 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.

In the Heart of Bantuland

Author : Dugald Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Heart of Bantuland written by Dugald Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Third Antichrist

Author : Mario Reading
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 085789479X
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book The Third Antichrist written by Mario Reading and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third Antichrist is here, just as Nostradamus predicted—and Adam Sabir is the only man who can prevent hell from reigning on earth, in the final Nostradamus installment Five centuries ago, Nostradamus wrote of three Antichrists. Two, Napoleon and Hitler, have already bathed the world in blood—but it is the third who will bring the Apocalypse. And his time has come. In the mountains of Moldova, a ruthless tyrant is hailed as the Second Coming of Christ. In the gypsy camps of Romania, a woman's unborn child could change the course of the world. In a polluted sinkhole in Mexico, four siblings pledge themselves to vengeance. Only scholar Adam Sabir, guardian of the lost prophecies of Nostradamus, knows what will happen when these destinies collide. He alone 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.

Ship of Chance

Author : Leonard Lewis
Publisher : Abbott Press
ISBN 13 : 1458211339
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Ship of Chance written by Leonard Lewis and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After earning a half-million-dollar reward for helping to capture a serial killer, Greg Paris treats his family to a cruise on the Queen of Hearts, billed as the largest gambling ship in the world. Accompanied by his wife, Dianne; their six-year-old daughter, Jody; Greg's brother, Steve; and Steve's new bride, Inez, they set sail for Caribbean and Mediterranean ports. But they quickly find out it's not going to be the idyllic vacation they envisioned. Greg and Steve hear rumors of a murder and other disappearances that have occurred on this same ship on different cruises. Soon, they experience the violence firsthand. Inez disappears, and Dianne suffers a vicious assault. It's evident there is a serious criminal element aboard the Queen of Hearts. Greg, an elementary school teacher in New York City and a former marine who served in Afghanistan, intends to track down Inez's whereabouts on the ship, find the perpetrators, and bring them to justice.

Once Upon a Time

Author : Avik Bakshi
Publisher : StoryMirror Infotech Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9360705144
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Once Upon a Time written by Avik Bakshi and published by StoryMirror Infotech Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2024-08-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book: “Once Upon A Time” follows the protagonist’s journey through his past, twenty years ago. An educated young man, he resigns from his job as a schoolteacher due to a romantic entanglement with the headmaster’s daughter. He becomes an estate manager in eastern India, initially struggling with isolation but gradually embracing the forest life. He befriends a young fisherman, learns horse riding and fishing, and survives various forest adventures. Fascinated by tales of a black leopard, he visits the village of Kuhika, where he encounters a mysterious old man who guides him to find the black orchid to cure a local villager’s strange disease. Despite twists and challenges, he discovers the true purpose of his life and love. The story concludes with his return to his hometown, honoring his lost love and acknowledging the pivotal roles played by destiny and courage in shaping one’s life. About the Author: Avik Bakshi is a management professional and writer originally from Kolkata in India. He has earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering which is followed by an MBA in Human Resource Management. He has a rich experience of over ten years in different HR functions and has worked for reputed organizations like Capgemini, The Shipping Corporation of India Ltd., and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. The work titled “Once Upon A Time” is his first novel. Additionally, he is interested in music and filmmaking. Anyone interested in connecting with the author of this book may do so by contacting at [email protected].

The Work of Repair

Author : Thomas Cousins
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 1531503551
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Work of Repair written by Thomas Cousins and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 2008, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, timber corporations distributed hot cooked meals as a nutrition intervention to bolster falling productivity and profits. But life and sustenance are about much more than calories and machinic bodies. What is at stake is the nurturing of capacity across all domains of life—physical, relational, cosmological—in the form of amandla. An Nguni word meaning power, strength or capacity, amandla organizes ordinary concerns with one’s abilities to earn a wage, to strengthen one’s body, and to take care of others; it describes the potency of medicines and sexual vitality; and it captures a history of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggle for freedom. The ordinary actions coordinated by and directed at amandla do not obscure the wounding effects of plantation labor or the long history of racial oppression, but rather form the basis of what the Algerian artist Kader Attia calls repair. In this captivating ethnography, Cousins examines how amandla, as the primary material of the work of repair, anchors ordinary scenes of living and working in and around the plantations. As a space of exploitation that enables the global paper and packaging industry to extract labor power, the plantation depends on the availability of creative action in ordinary life to capitalize on bodily capacity. The Work of Repair is a fine-grained exploration of the relationships between laborers in the timber plantations of KwaZulu-Natal, and the historical decompositions and reinventions of the milieu of those livelihoods and lives. Offering a fresh approach to the existential, ethical and political stakes of ethnography from and of late liberal South Africa, the book attends to urgent questions of postapartheid life: the fate of employment; the role of the state in providing welfare and access to treatment; the regulation of popular curatives; the queering of kinship; and the future of custom and its territories. Through detailed descriptions, Cousins explicates the important and fragile techniques that constitute the work of repair: the effort to augment one’s capacity in a way that draws on, acknowledges, and reimagines the wounds of history, keeping open the possibility of a future through and with others.

The Dead will Arise

Author : Jeff Peires
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868425630
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book The Dead will Arise written by Jeff Peires and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.