The Tongue Is Fire: South African Storytellers and Apartheid

by Harold Scheub

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299150909
• ISBN13: 9780299150907
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"