Browsing by Subject "Orality"

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    • Alternative perspectives on orality, literacy and education: a view from South Africa. 

      Bock, Zannie; Gough, David H. (Routledge, 2001)
      The question of the 'great divide' between orality and literacy has been critically addressed by various scholars of literacy, including social literacy theorists. This paper uses the notions of primary and secondary ...

    • Notes towards a history of Khoi literature 

      Wittenberg, Hermann (Taylor & Francis, 2011)
      This article puts forward a revisionist history of Khoi literature, and also presents a number of translated Khoi narratives that have not been available in English before. Compared to the large volume of Bushman literature ...

    • Oral literature in South Africa: 20 years on 

      Brown, Duncan (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      I offer a retrospective on the field of orality and performance studies in South Africa from the perspective of 2016, assessing what has been achieved, what may have happened inadvertently or worryingly, what some of the ...

    • Smoking around the campfire: A San encounter with the colonial 

      Wessels, Michael (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      In 1873 Joseph Orpen, resident of Nomansland, engaged a San1 man Qing to guide a combined force of levies and mounted police through the Maloti mountains in present-day Lesotho where they hoped to intercept a group of ...