Abstract
Making symmetrical knowledge possible - recent trends in the field of Southern African oral performance studies obscurity & exegesis in African oral praise poetry remaking the warrior? the role of orality in the liberation struggle & in post-apartheid South Africa (Dis)locating selves - Izibongo & narrative autobiography in South Africa the image of the book in Xhosa oral poetry orality & modernity in autobiographical representation - the case of Naboth Mokgale's life story Mandela, Africanism & modernity - a consideration of Long Walk to Freedom orality, literacy & the archive in the making of Kas Maine the emergence of the South African oral-style short story - A.W. Drayson's Tales at the Outspan by Craig MacKenzie 'Different people have different minds' - a personal attempt to understand Ju/'hoan storytelling aesthetics sister, spouse, lazy woman - commentaries on domestic predicaments orality & Christianity - the hymns of Isiah Shembe & the Church of Nazarites Chakide, the teller of secrets - space, song & story in Zulu Maskanda.
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