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Language: en
Pages: 328
Pages: 328
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983-12-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of the Xhosa oral poetry tradition.
Language: en
Pages: 324
Pages: 324
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
‘In The Bones of The Ancestors Are Shaking, Russell Kaschula provides an ample introduction to the subject of oral poetry, both drawing on earlier accounts an
Language: en
Pages: 388
Pages: 388
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: New Africa Books
Xhosa oral poetry has defied the threats to its integrity over two centuries, to take its place in a free South Africa. This volume establishes the background t
Language: en
Pages: 614
Pages: 614
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09 - Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. B
Language: en
Pages: 266
Pages: 266
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-18 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press
The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for