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The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance
Harold ScheubHarold 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 Poem in the Story: Music, Poetry, and Narrative
Harold ScheubThis is the area of ambiguity where fiction and fact become endowed with meaning, and this is the area—where ambiguity, irony, and metaphor join forces—that Harold Scheub exposes in all its nuanced and evocative complexity in The Poem ...
African Tales
Harold ScheubRealizing that these tales are part of a dying art, Scheub writes for the inner ear in everyone, bringing an oral tradition to life in written form.
Shadows: Deeper Into Story
Harold Scheub"... selected not only African oral and written stories but also tales from around the world ..."--Pref., p. 11.
The Tongue Is Fire: South African Storytellers and Apartheid
Harold ScheubThese texts are a tribute to the storytellers who have always, in periods of crisis, exercised their art to inspire their own people.
Storytelling Songs of Zulu Women: Recording Archetypal Rites ...
Harold ScheubThese two African women, whose stories, in their similarities and variations, provide insights into the nature of stories and the evolving of stories from one generation to the next.
A dictionary of African mythology: the mythmaker as storyteller
Harold ScheubA remarkable compilation of four hundred myths representing a broad spectrum of African cultures and regions presents an alphabetically arranged collection that touches on virtually every aspect of religious belief, with stories of gods and ...
Story
Harold ScheubErnest Pereira (Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1993), 151-57. 11. Arnold Bennett wrote the introduction to Smith's collection of stories, The Little Karoo: "At the age of twelve she migrated to England to be reeducated. An early age ...
English in Africa
More editionsMichael Cosser Ernest Pereira, Sheila Scholten & Harold Scheub, eds. 1993. The Unknown Pauline Smith. Intro. Ernest Pereira. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, xix + 233pp. Pauline Smith was raised on the Bible; her mature fiction ...
Casualty Actuarial Society Forum
More editionsJACK: HAROLD JILL: HAROLD JACK: JILL: HAROLD: JACK: JILL: HAROLD JACK: HAROLD JILL: HAROLD JACK: JILL: HAROLD JACK: JILL: Have you implemented tough, new cost-saving measures? Yes sir! We cutout vacations, holidays, ...
Who Killed the Queen?: The Story of a Community Hospital and ...
Holly Dressel1 Griffith, Harold, “Highlights in the Life of Harold Randall Griffith.” Griffith, Harold. Diary entry, 160. Griffith, Harold. “Highlights in the Life of Harold Randall Griffith,” 31. This and all subsequent quotes about Vimy are from Harold Griffith's letter ...
The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter
Peter Raby28 Harold Pinter, The Caretaker, Complete Works: Two, p. 19. 29 Harold Pinter, The Collection, Complete Works: Two, p. 151. 30 Harold Pinter, in Conversations with Pinter, ed. Gussow, p. 71. The reference is to The Birthday Party, Complete ...
Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters, 1907-1964
Harold NicolsonHarold Nicolson is one of the three great political diarists of the 20th century. Nicolson was an MP who attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
U.S. Tax Cases
More editionsThe Ownership of Slock in Lyndon Wood Products by Defendant Harold G. Stciner, and of Stock in S &□ 1' Tree Farms, Inc., by Defendants Harold G. Steiner and Ollic Mae Steiner I find and determine that defendant Harold G. Steiner is the ...
Harold at the North Pole
Crockett JohnsonIt's up to the ever-resourceful Harold to draw up a plan and save Christmas! Ever since the publication of Harold and the Purple Crayon in 1955, Crockett Johnson's crayon-wielding hero has had a devoted following.
Twentieth Century Accounting Thinkers (RLE Accounting)
PreviewHAROLD C. EDEY The youngest member of the Triumvirate is Harold Edey; he was also the last to join the staff of the LSE. Harold Edey followed the traditional training of an English chartered accountant in the 1930s. Leaving school at the ...
Caduceus
Kappa Sigma FraternityHAROLD CLARK POWELL Harold Clark Powell, initiated by Beta-Xi Chapter at the University of California in September, 1920, son of the late Worthy Grand Master G. Harold Powell (Cornell), died in South Africa as a result of an accident on ...
Harold Wilson and European Integration: Britain's Second ...
PreviewThis aspect of Wilson's strategy is also discussed in Pimlott, Harold Wilson, pp. 435–6; Morgan, Harold Wilson, p. 291; Morgan, Callaghan, p. 254. Castle, The Castle Diaries, p. 208 (6 January 1967). Williams also attempts to exonerate Wilson ...
The Scottish World
Harold OrelIntroduction Harold Orel, University Distinguished Professor in English, The University of Kansas i i i SCOTTISH STEREOTYPES Harold Orel 13 2 FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO 1058 Leslie Alcock, Professor of Archaeology, and Alexander ...
Public hearing on House Resolution 88 (1973-74): mentally ...
California. Legislature. Assembly. Select Committee on Mentally Disordered Criminal OffendersThank you. Dr. Harold Deering, Orange County Mental Health Services. DR. HAROLD C. PEERING: I am Harold C. Deering, M.D. I, for two years, have been in charge of the forensic psychiatry team for Orange County. We have been operating ...
Harold's ABC
Crockett JohnsonTaking along his purple crayon, Harold journeys from A to Z, each letter generating a picture from which the word becomes part of an uninterrupted story.
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
Harold BloomHarold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom. PETER FREESE. Kurt. Vonnegut's. Slaughterhouse-Five. or,. How. to. Storify. an. Atrocity. D. uring the night of February 13, 1945, three waves of British and ...
Harold Larwood
Duncan HamiltonWinner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, this is the first ever biography of Harold Larwood.
Harold Finn - Ninja Warrior the Warrior Within
Paul DonovanHarold's life as an accountant was pretty boring, and he liked it that way.
Deviant
Harold SchechterThis is his story—recounted in fascinating and chilling detail by Harold Schechter, one of the most acclaimed true-crime storytellers of our time.
Peacemaking, 1919
Harold Nicolson'Of all branches of human endeavour, diplomacy is the most protean.' That is how Harold Nicolson begins this book. It is an apt opening.
Memories of Another Day
Harold RobbinsHarold Robbins, the world's most popular and captivating storyteller, has created what may well be the most significant book ever written about the rise of the labor unions.
Living a Life that Matters: Resolving the Conflict Between ...
Harold S KushnerIn this inspiring, uplifting and timely book, Harold Kushner addresses our craving for significance, the need to know that our lives and choices mean something.
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