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The tongue is fire: South Africa storytellers and apartheid

Harold Scheub
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Illustrations (page xiii)
  • Preface (page xv)
  • Note (page xxvii)
  • Introduction: Some Moments, Figures, and Themes in South African History (page 3)
  • PROLOGUE FOUNDERS OF THE INHERITANCE: "LET ME GO BACK"
    • Introduction (page 21)
    • Origins of the Xhosa (Ndumiso Bhotomane, page 31)
  • PART 1 CULTIVATING THE PAST: "THIS IS GOD'S PLACE"
    • Introduction (page 51)
    • "The Necessary Clown" (Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, page 61)
    • "The Endless Mountain" (Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, page 78)
  • PART 2 AMBIGUOUS PROMISE: "IT KEEPS ON HAPPENING, IT KEEPS ON HAPPENING"
    • Introduction (page 149)
    • Malikophu's Daughter (Noplani Gxavu, page 163)
    • The Deadly Pumpkin (Emily Ntsobane, page 187)
  • PART 3 THE THREATENED DREAM: "THE LAND WAS SEIZED"
    • Introduction (page 205)
    • So Tall He Touched the Heavens (Mdukiswa Tyabashe, page 223)
    • All the Land of the Mpondomise (Mdukiswa Tyabashe, page 227)
    • Snapping at the Water's Foam (Mtshophane Mamba, page 275)
    • The Land Was Seized: The Ngcayechibi War of 1877 (Ndumiso Bhotomane, page 279)
    • The Land Has Grown Old (Ashton Ngcama, page 282)
    • Tears in Your Stomach (Ashton Ngcama, page 287)
  • PART 4 UNCERTAIN HOPE: LIGHTING "AN UNCONTROLLABLE FIRE"
    • Introduction (page 293)
    • She Spoke about the Resurrection: Nongqawuse and the Cattle Killing of 1857 (Ndumiso Bhotomane, page 304)
    • No Person Arose (Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, page 307)
    • Chakijana, the Trickster (Sondoda Ngcobo, page 314)
    • Chakijana, Zulu Freedom-fighter (Sondoda Ngcobo, page 334)
    • So Everybody Was After Chakijana (Frederick William Calverley, page 346)
    • The Whites Were to Be Killed (P. W. van Niekerk, page 358)
  • EPILOGUE SEIZERS OF THE INHERITANCE: "THE STORY IS PAINFUL"
    • Introduction (page 361)
    • Jabulani Alone (Nomusa Makhoba, page 369)
    • Age and Death (Magagamela Koko, page 395)
  • Notes (page 401)
  • Sources (page 421)
  • Index (page 429)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
IJAHS 32.1 (1999): 169-171 http://www.jstor.org/stable/220832
AFSR 42.3 (Dec. 1999): 190-192 http://www.jstor.org/stable/525272
JAH 39.2 (1998): 345-346 http://www.jstor.org/stable/183613
CDEA 39.153 (1999): 221-223 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4392934
JSAS 25.2 (Jun. 1999): 303-310 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2637605
JAF 112.443 (Winter 1999): 102-104 http://www.jstor.org/stable/541413
Citable Link
Published: 1996
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780299150907 (hardcover)
  • 9780299150945 (paper)
  • 9780299150938 (ebook)
Subject
  • African
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