"We Spend Our Years as a Tale that is Told": Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom by Isabel Hofmeyr
"We Spend Our Years as a Tale that is Told": Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom
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Isabel Hofmeyr
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"We Spend Our Years as a Tale that is Told": Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom

Isabel Hofmeyr

328 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

informative inspiring tense medium-paced
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Taking 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 "tr...

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