The Tongue Is Fire: South African Storytellers and Apartheid

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Index Abyssinia, 277 Achebe, Chinua, 28, 405n9 Addis Ababa, 16, 404n28 Aesop's fables, xviii Aesthetic experience, 365; aesthetics of performance , 150, 151, 210; aesthetic tension, 150-58 African National Congress, 9, 13, 15, 16; banning of, 13 Africans: disparity in education funds, 403-4n20; education, 403-4n20; and Europeans, xxi, 9, 10, 13-14,205,206,293301 , 304-13, 362, 365, 369-94; resistance, 12; rights, 11; unity, 11 Afrikaans, 13 Afrikaner: origin of the name, 403n6; nationalism, 8; Afrikaner Party, 12 Afrikaners, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 217, 293, 300,334-45, 346-57, 358, 413n33;Boer army, 271; Boer republics, 8; support of Germany, 12. See also Dutch Aiken, Henry David: "The Aesthetic Relevance of Belief," 364, 419n9 Amafelandawonye (the Die-hards) movement ,11 Amankazana, 408n2 Amanzimtoti, 346 American blacks, 11-12 Ancestors, 219, 289, 311 Anglo-Boer War, 9, 299-300, 334, 347, 415n2 Anta,39 Anti-white ideology, 11 Apartheid, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, 9, 12, 13, 21, 24, 28, 52, 57, 162, 205, 293, 301, 367-68; definition,403n15; grand apartheid, 403n15; laws, 12; petty apartheid, 403n15 Apocrypha, 404nl Archie, 33, 38, 41, 42 Audience of oral performance, 28, 53, 54, 55, 57, 150-58, 209, 213, 219, 362, 365, 410nn4,11 Ayliff, John, 46, 284, 407n14, 414n1 Ayliff Memorial Church, 46 429 Badzir,43 Bala,229 Bamba,279,306 Bambatha, xxvi, 6, 8, 10, 301, 303, 334-45, 346-57,358, 418n4; beheading of, 10, 351-52; birth, 416n21, 417n22 Bambatha Rebellion, 10,293,300-301, 334-45, 346-57, 358, 416nll,418nnl, 7 Banning of Pan Africanist Congress and African National Congress, 13 Bantu education act, 12 Bards. See poets Bamato, Barney, 8-9 Basotho Rebellion, 347-48, 417nl Battle of Blood River, 7 Bawa,279 Bazindlovu, 42 Beattie, John: "Ritual and Social Change," 415n3 Beeckman, Daniel, 402n3 Beinart, William: 1/Amafelandawonye (the Die-hards}," 403n14 Beinart, William, and Colin Bundy: Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa, 403n14, 415n3 Bennie, W. G., ed.: Imibengo, 404n26 Benthall, Jonathan, and Ted Polhemus, eds.: The Body as a Medium of Expression, 419n13 Beowulf, 203 Bernstein, Leonard: The Unanswered Question , 157,364, 410n9, 419n7 Bethany, 276 Bhaca,253,254,255,256,270,412n2~ 414n10; defined, 414n10; and the Mpondomise , 253-57, 270 Bhacela, 406n11 Bhayi,43 Bhekamuzi Valley, 355 Bhengele, 215 Bhisa River, 230, 231, 232 Bhobhozayo, 39 Bhobhu,284,285 Bhodi,250 Bhojini,35 430 Index Bhokleni, 257 Bholo, 41, 42 Bhota,35 Bhotomane, 36, 280, 281, 304, 306 Bhotomane, Ndumiso England, xvii, xviii, xxiv, xxv, 21, 24, 25, 27, 31-47, 51, 52, 150, 221, 222, 293, 367, 405nn10, 11; "The Land Was Seized," 205, 279-81; "Origins of the Xhosa," 31-47; "She Spoke about the Resurrection," 297-98, 304-6 Bhukwana, 240 Bhulekane, 272 Bhungane,223 Bhuru, 35, 279, 280, 305,306 Bika, 280, 281 Biko, Bantu Stephen, 6, 14-15; "Black Consciousness and the Quest for True Humanity," 404n22 Binns, C. T.: Dinuzulu: The Death of the House of Shaka, 416n12, 417n22 Bissell, Arthur Dart: The Role of Expectation in Music, 362, 364, 419n5, 6 Biyela, Ellen, 299 Biyela, Umhle, 25-27, 217, 218, 405n7, 413n32 Biyela (people), 25-27, 416n16 Black Consciousness Movement, 13, 14 Black Pimpernel, 15 Blaudin, Ben, 62 Bobe Ridge, 349 Body: in performance, 28, 30, 53, 150-58, 365 Boers. See Afrikaners; Dutch Bokako, Edi,son M.: "Bo-Santagane ... ," 213,214,215, 411nn14, 20, 21, 412n27 Bomvana, 5,44, 45, 305, 306 Bomvu,42 Bondelswart massacre, 403n12 Bonisani, 41, 42 Botha, Louis, 293, 415n2 Botha, P. W., 16 Boya,215 Boyd, Charles G.: "Making Peace with the Guilty," 49, 407n3 Branford, Jean: A Dictionary of South African English, 403n15 Bridal attire: Xhosa, 70-71, 73-74 Bridal party: Mpondomise, 246; Xhosa, 61-77 Bride: Xhosa, 61-77, 408n11, 409n18 British, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 293, 300, 415n2; Commonwealth, 12; forces, 303, 34757 ; language: English versus Dutch, 7; government, 355,358 Brombert, Victor: "The Idea of the Hero," 203, 410n1 Brombert, Victor, ed.: The Hero in Literature, 410n1 Brown, E. K.: Rhythm in the Novel, 419n4 Brownlee, Charles Pacalt: Reminiscences of Kaftr Life and History, 415n3 Bryce, James: Impressions of South Africa, 417n25 Buchan, John: Prester John, 417n25 Bulembu, 33, 39 Bulhoek,6 Bulhoek Massacre, 10-11 Bundy, Colin. See Beinart, William, and Colin Bundy Burckhardt, Jacob: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, xx,401n15 Burial places of the kings, 24, 43-44; of Mpondomise kings, 229...