Orality, Literacy, And Colonialism In Southern Africa
First Statement of Responsibility
\ Edited by Jonathan A. Draper
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Atlanta
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Society Of Biblical Literature
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2003
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
vi, 270 p.
SERIES
Series Title
Semeia studies
Volume Designation
; no. 46
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Code E.Book: 7920
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Script, subjugation, and subversion : an introduction / Jonathan A. Draper --Orality, literacy, and colonialism in historical perspective. Fighting with the pen : the appropriation of the press by early Xhosa writers / Jeff Opland. From the Bible as bola to biblical interpretation as marabi : Tlhaping transactions with the Bible / Gerald O. West. The closed text and the heavenly telephone : the role of the bricoleur in oral mediation of sacred text in the case of George Khambule and the Gospel of John / Jonathan A. Draper. Making the book, performing the words of Izihlabelelo zamaNazaretha / Carol Muller. The land and the word : missions, African Christians, and the claiming of land in South Africa / Deborah James and Geoffrey Maphahla Nkadimeng --Dimensions of orality and resistance in modern South Africa. Frozen assets? : orality and the public space in KZN : izibongo and isicathamiya / Liz Gunner. "Where shall I wonder under the thunder who's that black boys making that black noise step a little closer to the mic" : prophets of da city and urban (South African) identity / Duncan Brown. Translation and the vernacular Bible in the debate between my "traditional" and academic worldviews / Maarman Sam Tshehla. again : finding ways to host the TRC's oral, auto/biographical space / Ashlee Lenta. Oral history in a wounded country / Philippe Denis. Becoming ngaka : coming to terms with oral narrative discourses / Mogomme Alpheus Masoga --Response. Comnmentary / Terence Ranger.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Oral communication -- Africa, Southern -- History.
Written communication -- Africa, Southern -- History.