TY - BOOK TI - Orality, literacy, and colonialism in southern Africa AV - P95.D765.O735 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - Atlanta PB - Society of Biblical Literature KW - Oral communication KW - Africa, Southern KW - History KW - Written communication N1 - 1 (pages 249-267); 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 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 --; 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 --; Listening again: finding ways to host the trc's oral, auto/biographical space; Ashley Neser --; Oral history in a wounded country; Philippe Denis --; Becoming ngaka: coming to terms with oral narrative discourses; Mogomme Alpheus Masoga; 2 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003026378.html ER -