The Quivering Spear and Other South African Legends and Fables
Author : Thomas A. Nevin
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 19,55 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art, South African
ISBN :
The Quivering Spear and Other South African Legends and Fables
Author : Thomas A. Nevin
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art, South African
ISBN :
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The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Commonwealth literature (English)
ISBN :
Book Description
One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.
South-African Folk-Tales
Author : James A. Honey
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
This collection of folktales from South Africa has been put together the author says, not for scholarship but for a love of the sunny country where he was born. Some stories originate from Dutch sources, and some have several versions. Most are tales told by the bushmen.
South African national bibliography
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Afrikaans literature
ISBN :
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Classified list with author and title index.
Mukoma's Marriage and other Stories
Author : Sigauke, Emmanuel
Publisher : Booklove Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0797456600
Book Description
The stories in Mukoma's Marriage and Other Stories capture the lives of Zimbabwean men and the women they marry, and the lives of women and the men they fall in love with, each revealing the complexities of cultural and gender expectations against the backdrop of a changing country (war in the 1970s, political uncertainty in the 1980s and economic structural adjustment in the 1990s). Fati sets out to tell Mukoma's story, but ends up also telling his wives' stories. By telling his brother's story, and that of his women, he ends up telling his own story. Fati is a new and interesting protagonist in Zimbabwean literature with a voice at times innocent, yet increasingly incisive, humorous and engaging. These stories are deeply personal yet universal in their treatment of human relationships, ambitions, and misplaced cultural and gender expectations. Whether he is telling the story of his brother's first marriage, or remembers his brother's fights at a Parents Day event at Mhototi School, whether he recalls the night Mukoma took him to see a new baby in the alleyways of Glen View, Fati renders these stories with a measured, composed voice which doesn`t fail to delight with its unusual humour.
South-African Folk-tales
Author : James A. Honeÿ
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Folklore
ISBN :
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South-African Folk-Tales
Author : James A. Honey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 2017-05-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781546653028
Book Description
The Bushmen seem to trace back to the earliest Egyptian days, when dwarfs were pictured on the tombs of the kings and were a distinct race. From then until now it has been their pride to say that before men were men, they were; or, to put it clearer, before Africa was inhabited by other races, they were there. As represented by some of these stories of the Bushmen, what races have not, then, had their influence on the folklore? According to Stow, they were a wandering primitive race of small men, painters and sculptors, hunters and herdsmen, and withal a race showing traces of wonderful reasoning and adaptability, with a keen sense of justice and a store of pride. Mythological some of their stories are, but whether this is due to the influence of the Hottentots, a later race, it is difficult to say. And, lastly, there are the Kaffirs spread over the whole of South Africa, domineering, but backward. The varied influences which may have affected these stories before they reached us show what enormous possibilities there are for error in tracing the origin of the animal tales here presented.
NewAfrican Life
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Africa
ISBN :
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THE JACKAL AND THE HYENA - A South African Folktale
Author : Anon E Mouse
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 62 ÿ In Issue 62 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the South African tale of how Jackal used his deviousness to get aboard a wagon laden with fish. Seeing this Hyena tries the same trick. You?ll have to download and read the story to see what happens! ÿ Each issue also has a "Where in the World - Look it Up" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story, on map. HINT - use Google maps. ÿ INCLUDES LINKS TO 8 FREE DOWNLOADS ÿ Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories". ÿ It is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through Central Asia before arriving in Europe. Even so, this does not cover all folklore from all four corners of the world. Indeed folklore, legends and myths from Africa, Australia, Polynesia, and some from Asia too, are altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture.
