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Trickster and Hero: Two Characters in the Oral and Written Traditions of the World

By Harold Scheub

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9780299290740 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, February 28, 2013, cover price $29.95

The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance

Product Description: Isidore Okpewho -- State University of New York Distinguished Professor of Africana Studies, English, and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University.The oral and written traditions of the Africans of South Africa have provided an understanding of their past and the way the past relates to the present...read more

By Harold Scheub

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9780821419212 | Ohio Univ Pr, August 10, 2010, cover price $49.95

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9780821419229 | Ohio Univ Pr, August 10, 2010, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Isidore Okpewho -- State University of New York Distinguished Professor of Africana Studies, English, and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University.

Storytelling Songs of Zulu Women: Recording Archetypal Rites of Passage and Mythic Paths

Product Description: Presents a study of two Zulu women, storytellers, one who performed stories in 1868, the other in 1972. These two African women, whose stories, in their similarities and variations, provide insights into the nature of stories and the evolving of stories from one generation to the next...read more

By Harold Scheub

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9780773457416 | Edwin Mellen Pr, September 30, 2006, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Presents a study of two Zulu women, storytellers, one who performed stories in 1868, the other in 1972.

African Tales

Product Description: The latest work from Harold Scheub, one of the world's leading scholars of African folktales, is the broadest collection yet assembled with tales from the entire continent of Africa, north to south. It brings together mythic, fantastic, and coming-of-age tales, some transcribed more than a hundred years ago, others dating to modern-day Africa...read more

By Harold Scheub (editor)

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9780299209407 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The latest work from Harold Scheub, one of the world's leading scholars of African folktales, is the broadest collection yet assembled with tales from the entire continent of Africa, north to south.

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9780299209445 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, April 29, 2005, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Olga Matich suggests that same-sex desires underlaid Russian modernists utopian proposal of abolishing the traditional procreative family in favor of erotically induced abstinence.

The Poem in the Story: Music, Poetry, and Narrative

Product Description: Harold Scheub has conducted many investigations into nonverbal aspects of storytelling. In this work, he searches out what makes a story artistically engaging and emotionally evocative, the metaphorical centre that Scheub calls the poem in the story. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Harold Scheub

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9780299182144 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Harold Scheub has conducted many investigations into nonverbal aspects of storytelling.

The Poem in the Story: Music, Poetry, and the Narrative

Product Description: Fact and fiction meet at the boundaries, the betwixt and between where transformations occur. This is the area of ambiguity where fiction and fact become endowed with meaning, and this is the areaâwhere ambiguity, irony, and metaphor join forcesâthat Harold Scheub exposes in all its nuanced and evocative complexity in The Poem in the Story...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Harold Scheub

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9780299182106 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Fact and fiction meet at the boundaries, the betwixt and between where transformations occur.

A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker As Storyteller

A remarkable compilation of four hundred myths representing a broad spectrum of African cultures and regions presents an alphabetically arranged collection that touches on virtually every aspect of religious belief, with stories of gods and goddesses, creation tales, epic sagas, and more, ranging from North Africa to sub-Saharan tribal Africa.

By Harold Scheub

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9780195124569 | Getty Center for Education in, January 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A remarkable compilation of four hundred myths representing a broad spectrum of African cultures and regions presents an alphabetically arranged collection that touches on virtually every aspect of religious belief, with stories of gods and goddesses, creation tales, epic sagas, and more, ranging from North Africa to sub-Saharan tribal Africa.

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9780195124576 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $16.95

9780756780838, titled "Dictionary Of African Mythology: The Mythmaker As Storyteller" | Diane Pub Co, July 1, 2000, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: This collection of fascinating and revealing tales captures the sprawling diversity of African mythology.

The African Storyteller: Stories from African Oral Traditions

By Harold Scheub

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9780787255381 | Kendall Hunt Pub Co, November 1, 1998, cover price $103.19

9780840389312 | Kendall Hunt Pub Co, December 1, 1990, cover price $33.95

Story

Product Description: What is the essence of story? How does the storyteller convey meaning? Leading scholar Harold Scheub tackles these questions and more, demonstrating that the power of story lies in emotion. Â Â Â While others have focused on the importance of structure in the art of story, Scheub emphasizes emotion...read more

By Harold Scheub

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9780299159306 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $65.00

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9780299159344 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: What is the essence of story?

Secret Fire: The 1913-14 South African Journal of Pauline Smith

Product Description: During Pauline Smith's visit to the Little Karoo and environs, she kept a journal containing descriptive material, anecdotes, character sketches and imagery, which were worked into five of the stories of The Little Karoo. This journal describes the creative process, and the historical and sociological themes and issues of South Africa...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Harold Scheub (editor) and Pauline Smith

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9780869809303 | Univ of Natal Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: During Pauline Smith's visit to the Little Karoo and environs, she kept a journal containing descriptive material, anecdotes, character sketches and imagery, which were worked into five of the stories of The Little Karoo.

The Tongue Is Fire: South African Storytellers and Apartheid

Product Description: Â Â Â Â In the years between the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and the Soweto Uprising of 1976âa period that was both the height of the apartheid system in South Africa and, in retrospect, the beginning of its endâHarold Scheub went to Africa to collect stories...read more

By Harold Scheub

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9780299150907 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Â Â Â Â In the years between the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and the Soweto Uprising of 1976âa period that was both the height of the apartheid system in South Africa and, in retrospect, the beginning of its endâHarold Scheub went to Africa to collect stories.

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9780299150945 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This work presents the voices of the South African oral tradition - the historians, the poets, the epic-performers, the myth-makers - documenting their enduring faith in the power of the word to sustain tradition in the face of determined efforts to distort or eliminate it.

Meanings: Manual for the African Storyteller

By Harold Scheub

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9780840399342 | Kendall Hunt Pub Co, June 1, 1994, cover price $12.95

The Unknown Pauline Smith: Unpublished & Out of Print Stories, Diaries & Other Prose Writings (Including Her Arnold Bennett Memoir)

By Ernest Pereira (editor), Harold Scheub, Sheila Scholten and Pauline Smith

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9780869808856 | Univ of Natal Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $12.50

The World and the Word: Tales and Observations from the Xhosa Oral Tradition

Product Description: A master storyteller of the Xhosa people of South Africa, Nongenile Masithathu Zenani gives us an unprecedented view of an oral society from within. Twenty-four of her complex and beautiful tales about birth, puberty, marriage, and work, as told to the renowned collector of African oral tradition, Harold Scheub, are gathered here...read more

By Harold Scheub (editor) and Nongenile Masithathu Zenani

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9780299133108 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, October 15, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A master storyteller of the Xhosa people of South Africa, Nongenile Masithathu Zenani gives us an unprecedented view of an oral society from within.

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