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The Tongue Is Fire: South African Storytellers and Apartheid
University of Wisconsin Press
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.
544 pages, 1 map, 26 b&w photographs
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 30, 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9780299150945 |
| Publishers | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Pages | 544 |
| Dimensions | 153 × 227 × 28 mm · 648 g |
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