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• W1507489701 abstract "The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance. By Harold Scheub. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi + 240, photographs, notes, index. $46.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.)One of the enduring topics in the study of oral tradition is metaphor: How do we understand and theorize about metaphor within a specific cultural place and time? Furthermore, how do we analyze the interaction of metaphors in a performance situation? In this fascinating book, Professor Harold Scheub engages with diese questions via an ethnographic and philosophical meditation on nineteenth century and more recent oral tradition performances of the San and Nguni peoples, based on his lifelong research on storytellers and their audiences.The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance is one of the most original and compelling works on oral tradition that I have read in years. Scheub creatively interweaves theoretical engagement with narratives of the storytellers' lives, their words, and their affective use of metaphors to endure and resist the sustained assaults of the colonial and of the apartheid system. The secret to resistance, according to Scheub, is found in metaphor. Metaphor is more than a connection of unlike images - it is a process, a mysterious and inevitable movement revealing imagery of transformation and rebirth in the traditions of San and Nguni peoples. It is the storytellers who forge the metaphors and fantasy images of the stories with contemporary realistic images to visualize the present in historical context. As storytellers narrate, they construct contemporary images around ancient motifs and provide connections between present and past.The book has three chapters, a prelude, and a posdude. In Chapter 1, Scheub explores the basic tools of storytellers to provide a better understanding of oral performances and their meanings. Some of the most important tools of storytelling, according to Scheub, are metaphor, metaphorical process, and basic transformational movement in the stories. The San and Nguni storytellers of southern Africa use these tools to elicit and control the emotions of their audiences, psychologically preparing them, for example, to fight for their freedom or to stand against the racist ideology of the white overlords.In Chapter 2, Scheub locates the nineteenth century San and Nguni oral traditions of southern Africa within a broader discussion of southern Africa's artistic creations, including those of the Xhosa, Zulu, Sodio, and English traditions. For Scheub, the metaphors in the oral tradition of the San and Nguni peoples are, for the most part, constructed around the theme of transformation patterns. It is this theme of transformation that reveals the way the peoples of this region have survived the onslaught of colonialism. In this chapter, Scheub 's explores transformation themes in diree stories about snakes and the snake's ability to shed its skin. For him, the snake stories become the means and symbol of transformation for humans, for, like snakes, humans too go through metaphorical changes and renewals. The world of the animals in these stories and the world of humans are one and the same, and it is in this context diat, just as the snake renews itself by shedding its skin, the San and Nguni people renew themselves. The uncoiling pydion, as the tide of the book suggests, is a poetic image of the uncoiling of the resistance by San and Nguni peoples against colonialism and racism in southern Africa. …" @default.
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