Publications

Publication details [#18337]

Scheub, Harold. 1996. The tongue is Fire: South African Storytellers and Apartheid. University of Wisconsin Press. xxvii + 448 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
commenting | racism | storytelling
Language as a subject
Languages, South African

Annotation

The author sets out to demonstrate that oral narratives were the cornerstone of social commentary and resistance during the apartheid years.

Reviewed by

Herbert, Robert K. 1998. Review of $The tongue is Fire: South African Storytellers and Apartheid.