Orality, literacy, and colonialism in southern Africa / edited by Jonathan A. Draper. [print]

Material type: TextTextSeries: Semeia studies ; no. 46Publication details: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, (c)2003.Description: vi, 270 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • P95.D765.O735 2003
  • P95
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Contents:
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.
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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 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.

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