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The Tongue Is Fire: South African Storytellers and Apartheid

1999; Boston University; Volume: 32; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/220832

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Duncan Brown, Harold Scheub,

Cultural Identity and Representation

This work presents the voices of the South African oral tradition - the historians, the poets, the epic-performers, the myth-makers - documenting their enduring faith in the power of the word to sustain tradition in the face of determined efforts to distort or eliminate it.