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Xhosa Oral Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Jeff Opland
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983-12-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of the Xhosa oral poetry tradition.
Xhosa Poets and Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Jeff Opland
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: New Africa Books

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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
The Bones of the Ancestors are Shaking
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Russell Kaschula
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd

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‘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
Oral Literature in Africa
Language: en
Pages: 614
Authors: Ruth Finnegan
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09 - Publisher: Open Book Publishers

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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
Of Land, Bones, and Money
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Emily McGiffin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-18 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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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