"We Spend Our Years as a Tale that is Told": Oral Historical Narrative in a South African ChiefdomTaking its title from the Book of Psalms, this book investigates three related areas: oral storytelling, literacy and historical narrative. The author takes gender to be the decisive division in the storytelling genre, whereby men tend to tell "true" historical stories while women specialize in fictional narratives. With originality and humor, Isabel Hofmeyr examines how the male and female genres interact and plots the changes that have occurred in the oral history tradition. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Stories go Hand in Glove with Building a Man and a Woman | 25 |
Jonah and the Swallowing Monster | 41 |
Copyright | |
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"We Spend Our Years as a Tale that is Told": Oral Historical Narrative in a ... Isabel Hofmeyr No preview available - 1994 |
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