Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism

Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism PDF Author: Graeme Harper
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847142168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Drawing together for the first time original work from international specialists, this book assesses the role and character of comedy and fantasy in colonial societies from India to Ireland, Australia to Cuba, Africa to North America. There are cross-cultural comparisons and consideration of both imperial responses and colonized resistance. The book deals with oral as well as written traditions, the history of comic and fantastic discourse, visual, theatrical and literary representations as well as historical and cultural accounts.

Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism

Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism PDF Author: Graeme Harper
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847142168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Book Description
Drawing together for the first time original work from international specialists, this book assesses the role and character of comedy and fantasy in colonial societies from India to Ireland, Australia to Cuba, Africa to North America. There are cross-cultural comparisons and consideration of both imperial responses and colonized resistance. The book deals with oral as well as written traditions, the history of comic and fantastic discourse, visual, theatrical and literary representations as well as historical and cultural accounts.

Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle

Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle PDF Author:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Indaba, My Children

Indaba, My Children PDF Author: Credo Vusa'mazulu Mutwa
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802136046
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 716

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Comprehensive and beautifully written, this collection of African folktales is a stunning ethnographic achievement and riveting narrative of the mythical origins of the Zulu culture.

The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle

The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle PDF Author:
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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The Bull of the Kraal and the Heavenly Maidens

The Bull of the Kraal and the Heavenly Maidens PDF Author: Dudley Kidd
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Net Cast in Many Waters

Net Cast in Many Waters PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 212

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The Record

The Record PDF Author: Donald Moodie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108032648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 635

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This 1838 work, compiled by a British colonial official, investigates the treatment of indigenous tribes in colonial South Africa.

Report and Proceedings

Report and Proceedings PDF Author: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Commission on Native laws and Customs
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Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 1212

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African Folktales

African Folktales PDF Author: Paul Radin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400872944
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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A representative collection of eighty-one myths and folktales chosen from the oral tradition of the peoples of Africa south of the Sahara. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD - The Classic African Children's Story about a Special Dog

JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD - The Classic African Children's Story about a Special Dog PDF Author: Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 883253598X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Jock Of The Bushveld is a true story by South African author Sir James Percy FitzPatrick.[1] The book tells of FitzPatrick's travels with his dog, Jock, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross, during the 1880s, when he worked as a storeman, prospector's assistant, journalist and ox-wagon transport-rider in the Bushveld region of the Transvaal (then the South African Republic). Jock’s mother, Jess, was the only dog in their camp. FitzPatrick describes her as “an unattractive bull-terrier with a dull brindled coat–black and grey in shadowy stripes. She had small cross-looking eyes and uncertain always-moving ears; she was bad tempered and most unsociable", but everybody respected her. Jock’s father is only described as an imported dog in the book and there’s an ongoing debate on whether he was an American Staffordshire Terrier or of a breed like the Bull and Terrier. What followed were a string of amazing adventures across South Africa's highveld from the Lydenburg Goldfields to Delagoa Bay (Maputo) in which Jock had many adventures earned a reputation second to none. Jock permanently lost his hearing in one of these adventures when a kudu antelope cow kicked him. The main version of how Jock died is told as follows: When Fitzpatrick went to live in Barberton, he realised Jock was miserable living in a town and gave the dog to his friend Tom Barnett, who ran a supply store in what has since become Mozambique. NOTE. This was the route (Pretoria to Delagoa Bay) which Winston Churchill used to escape from the Boers in 1900. One night when Tom Barnett called him, he mistakenly shot Jock, because he was thought to be the dog killing chickens on his farm. He later discovered that Jock had meanwhile already killed the other intruding dog and was simply responding to his call. NOTE: The exact location of Jock´s grave is unfortunately not officially marked or known. However, in 1947 Fitzpatrick´s daughter Cecily Niven, backtracked her father´s travels according to the descriptions in "Jock of the Bushveld" and wrote about her findings in her book "Jock & Fitz" published 1968. ============== Sir James Percy FitzPatrick, KCMG, known as Percy FitzPatrick, was a South African author, politician, mining financier and pioneer of the fruit industry. He authored the classic children's book, Jock Of The Bushveld. As a politician, he defended British Imperial interests before and during the Anglo-Boer War.