The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance

by Harold Scheub

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821419226
• ISBN13: 9780821419229
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.7"