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Author | : Russell Kaschula |
Publisher | : Juta and Company Ltd |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780702152078 |
‘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 and presenting his own material, much of which has hitherto been unavailable in book form. Kaschula presents rich texts and translations of the Xhosa praise poetry for which southern Africa has long been famous, not only in the context of studies of African oral literature, but also among comparative scholars of world literature. The texts and translations in this book are a valuable and attractive addition to the record, ranging as they do from nineteenth-century examples to late twentieth-century praises for Joe Slovo, F.W. de Klerk, the South African soccer squad or Nelson Mandela, the latter being a special focus of the volume.’ — Professor Ruth Finnegan, The Open University, UK
Author | : Lindsay Michie |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2021-09-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1498576214 |
From an array of prominent activists including Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko to renowned performers and oral poets such as Johnny Dyani and Samuel Mqhayi, the Eastern Cape region plays a unique role in the history of South African protest politics and creativity. The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape concentrates on the Eastern Cape's contribution to the larger narrative of the connection between creativity, mass movements, and the forging of a modern African identity and focuses largely on the amaXhosa population. Lindsay Michie explores Eastern Cape performance artists, activists, organizations, and movements that used inventive and historical means to raise awareness of their plight and brought pressure to bear on the authorities and systems that caused it, all the while exhibiting the depth, originality, and inspiration of their culture.
Author | : Janet Hodgson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Author | : Marcus Baynes-Rock |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2015-08-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0271074043 |
Biologists studying large carnivores in wild places usually do so from a distance, using telemetry and noninvasive methods of data collection. So what happens when an anthropologist studies a clan of spotted hyenas, Africa’s second-largest carnivores, up close—and in a city of a hundred thousand inhabitants? In Among the Bone Eaters, Marcus Baynes-Rock takes us to the ancient city of Harar in Ethiopia, where the gey waraba (hyenas of the city) are welcome in the streets and appreciated by the locals for the protection they provide from harmful spirits and dangerous “mountain” hyenas. They’ve even become a local tourist attraction. At the start of his research in Harar, Baynes-Rock contended with difficult conditions, stone-throwing children, intransigent bureaucracy, and wary hyena subjects intent on avoiding people. After months of frustration, three young hyenas drew him into the hidden world of the Sofi clan. He discovered the elements of a hyena’s life, from the delectability of dead livestock and the nuisance of dogs to the unbounded thrill of hyena chase-play under the light of a full moon. Baynes-Rock’s personal relations with the hyenas from the Sofi clan expand the conceptual boundaries of human-animal relations. This is multispecies ethnography that reveals its messy, intersubjective, dangerously transformative potential.
Author | : Steven Erikson |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 1204 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780765348876 |
Erikson delivers the final installment of his "New York Times"-bestselling series, Malazon Book of the Fallen.
Author | : Andrew J. Farrara |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 1274 |
Release | : 2022-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1663245126 |
This book continues exploring the experiences, trials and tribulations of both the Journalist Romano known here as the First Man Adam and his Celestial Guide Zarathustra while they travel to the remaining Limboland Arenas and Inferno witnessing the horror of the after-world with the contemptuous Devil and his swaggering Three Crown Princes in their secret Offices in the lowest Infernal Ring. Here the disenchanted souls still struggle to survive with the interference of the narcissistic Devil and without the influence of God’s help. The remaining Limboland Arenas include the Black Afrikan; the Primitives Mini-Limboland; the Russian Marxists; the Conspiracy Theorists; the Persians; the Ottoman Turks; the Filipino Mini-Limboland and the Limbo-Limbo Lands through the Gates of Hades. The draconian Devil’s Inferno sites include Ring One as the De-Militarized Zone; the Jungleland Inner Sanctum; Ring Two as Carnality; Ring Three as Gluttony; Ring Four as Greed & Avarice; a Culinary Intermezzo Between Greed & Anger; Ring Five of the Anger & Wrathful & Sullen; Ring Six of Heresy; Ring Seven of Violence; Ring Eight of the Evil Pouches; Ring Nine of the Traitors & Fraud; and Ring Ten of Lucifer’s Demonic Cabaret. Not to be captured or outdone by the Devil the duo finally arrange Getting Out of Hell while the last scenes include The Devil’s Last Hurrah and Lilith Gets the Last Laugh; Infernus Not.
Author | : Millard Lowe |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2020-06-16 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1984583859 |
It has been written that woven webs of spiders are symbolic of fate "...similar to us humans who get caught up in the web of illusion of the physical world, and never see beyond the horizon into other dimensions..." It may also be said that the common web also represents that polarity of human life in which we all are woven into and are caught up in its good, evil, ugliness and beauty. Yet we need not be victimized prey in this web of humanity but enlightened beings working prolifically to weave the evil and ugliness into good and beauty. Thus is the nature of the enlighten illumination of the webbed words of these selected poems and short stories. Enjoy the many imaging allegorical messages herein woven in this publication.
Author | : Scott Sigler |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2010-06-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307589358 |
“The ancestors are out there…you have to believe me.” From acclaimed author Scott Sigler—New York Times bestselling creator of Infected and Contagious—comes a tale of genetic experimentation’s worst nightmare come true. Every five minutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a heart, a liver, a kidney. Imagine a technology that could provide those life-saving transplant organs for a nominal fee ... and imagine what a company would do to get a monopoly on that technology. On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered this holy grail of medicine. By reverse-engineering the genomes of thousands of mammals, Colding's team has dialed back the evolutionary clock to re-create humankind’s common ancestor. The method? Illegal. The result? A computer-engineered living creature, an animal whose organs can be implanted in any person, and with no chance of transplant rejection. There's just one problem: these ancestors are not the docile herd animals that Colding's team envisioned. Instead, Colding’s work has given birth to something big, something evil. With these killer creatures on the prowl, Colding and the woman he loves must fight to survive — even as government agents close in to shut the project down, and the deep-pocketed company backing this research proves to have its own cold-blooded agenda. As the creators become the prey in the ultimate battle for survival, Scott Sigler takes readers on the ultimate thrill-ride—and offers a chilling cautionary account of what can happen when hubris, greed, and madness drive scientific experimentation past the brink of reason.
Author | : Jaspal Kaur Singh |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Apartheid in literature |
ISBN | : 9781433107009 |
The re-conceptualization of South Africa as a democracy in 1994 has influenced the production and reception of texts in this nation and around the globe. The literature emerging after 1994 provides a vision for reconciling the fragmented past produced by the brutality of apartheid policies and consequently shifting social relations from a traumatized past to a reconstructed future. The purpose of the essays in this anthology is to explore, within the literary imagination and cultural production of a post-apartheid nation and its people, how the trauma and violence of the past are reconciled through textual strategies. What role does memory play for the remembering subject working through the trauma of a violent past?
Author | : Claire Buss |
Publisher | : Claire Buss |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2021-11-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1913611043 |
The Spice Ghosts have descended on Roshaven accusing Jenni of stealing their sacred bones and are threatening to destroy the city if they are not returned but Jenni the sprite has no idea what they’re talking about. With the help of her boss, Chief Thief-Catcher Ned Spinks, Jenni promises to find and return them however the skeletal trail leads them into the dark and dangerous waters of the dread Sea Witch. Ned is out of his depth and frantically treading water while Jenni must fight to avoid becoming catch of the day. The Bone Thief is the third quirky magical mystery adventure set in the Roshaven series of humorous fantasy novels.