The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance

Index

Aesop’s fables, xiii, 115, 196 African National Congress (ANC), xv, 194 Afrikaans, xiv Afrikaners, xiv, xv la!kunta, 53; “The Resurrection of the Ostrich,” 72–75 Akutagawa, Ryunosuke: “To a Grove,” 196 Algeria, 115 allegory, 112 Anglo-Boer War, xiv animals, kinship with, 48–51 anti-pass demonstrations, xv apartheid laws, xv Aristotle: Poetics, 13 Asians, xv Bâ, Amadou Hampâté: Kaïdara, 218n7 Babylon, 198 Baikie, William Balfour, 52 Balfour, Henry: “The Goura . . . ,” 209n22 Bantu Education Act (1953), xv Bantu speakers, xiv, 5, 52 Barkly, Henry, 53 Bellow, Saul: Henderson the Rain King, 202 Benjamin, Walter: Illuminations, 107–8, 196 Berglund, Axel-Ivar: Zulu Thought Patterns and Symbolism, 1–2 Berlin University, 52 Bhaca, 127, 147 Bible, King James Version, 207n Bleek Archive, 55–57, 58–59, 65–66, 69–71 Bleek, Dorothea F.: Customs and Beliefs of the |xam Bushmen, 54; The Mantis and His Friends, 46, 54; The Naron, 43, 54; A Survey . . . of Rock-Paintings in South Africa, 54 Bleek, Friedrich, 52 Bleek, W. H. I., 7, 9–13, 40, 52–53, 54, 209n20, 211n7, 216nn58–61, 216n77; “The Bushman Language,” 53; A Comparative Grammar of African Languages, 53; Reineke Fuchs in Afrika, 60–64, 214n56; Report . . . , 53 Bleek, W. H. I., and Lucy C. Lloyd: Specimens of Bushman Folklore, 7, 9–13, 40, 52–54, 57–58, 102–3, 209n, 210nn2–4, 211n7, 213n52, 216nn65–72, 222n82; “Concerning Two Apparitions,” 78–81, 216nn69– 71; “Girls Become Stars,” 81; “The Girl’s Story, the Frog’s Story,” 75–77, 216nn65–68; “‡kágára . . . ,” 192–93, 221–22nn68–82; “Lynx . . . ,” 88–93, 217nn82–85; “A Man Becomes Clouds,” 81–82; “The ‡nèrru and Her Husband,” 83–85, 216nn72–77; “The Resurrection of the Ostrich,” 72–75; “The Scapegoat,” 77–78 Boers, xiv Bonn, University of, 52 Borges, Jorge Luis: Siete Noches, 201, 223nn12–13 Breakwater, 53 British, xiv, 8, 31 British Museum, 103 Brooks, David, 209n19 Brooks, Peter, and Paul Gewirtz, eds.: Law’s Stories, 222n4 Bubesi Location, 135 Buckland, A. W.: “Ethnological Hints . . . ,” 217n79 Callaway, Henry: Nursery Tales . . . , 24–31, 205, 210n7, 214–15n57 Campbell, Joseph: The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 198 235 index 236 S Index Drakensberg Mountains, 50, 104 Dube, George, 194 Durban, 54 Dutch, xiii, xiv, 8, 32 Dutch East India Company, xiv East Africa, xiv East London, 15 Egypt, 108 Else, Gerald F., 209 Emerson, Ralph Waldo: “History,” 201 emotions, 20, 36, 101, 105–19, 179–80, 187–92, 195–96, 201 epic, 97–101, 108–9 epic matrix, 109 Europe, xiv, 54 European invasion, 126 Europeans, 126–27, 129, 144–47 fairy tales, xii, 4, 6, 198, 204 fantasy, xii, 14, 35, 42–48, 96–107, 110–15, 118–19, 129, 134, 140, 187, 199, 201 fantasy shadow, 20 feeling, 8–9, 37–38, 44 Fisk, G., 53 folklore, xii Fourie, L.: “The Bushmen of South West Africa,” 45, 212n25 Free Church of Scotland, 15 Gariep San, 48, 49 Gatyana District, 39, 141, 153, 160, 166, 181 Gaulana, Nokwazi: “Kabetana at the Ochre Pit,” 127–29, 130 Gcaleka, 141, 153, 208n10 gemsbok, 11 gestures, 37 Giant’s Castle Game Reserve, 43 Gilgamesh Epic, 198 gold, xiv, 8 Gordon, Robert J., and Stuart Sholto Douglas: The Bushman Myth, 209n29 goura, 9–13, 209n22 Government of National Unity, 207n1 Gray, Robert, 53 Grey, George, 52, 53 Grey Collection, 54 Guguletu Seven, 200 Gxavu, Noplani: “A Daughter Sold,” 141–46; photograph, 142 Canetti, Elias: Aufzeichnungen, 39, 103, 210n; From Prague Poet to Oxford Anthropologist, 103; Nachträge aus Hampstead, 102–3 Cape, 54 Cape of Good Hope, University of the, 54 Cape Province, xv Cape Provincial Council, 15 Cape Town, xiv, 15, 52, 54, 203, 209n20 Cape Town, University of, 209n20 “children’s revolution,” xv Christianity, xiii, 179 Christian missionaries, 206 Cinderella, xii Ciskei, 39 Colenso, John William, 52 Colenso, William, 54 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Biographia Literaria, 201; “Frost at Midnight,” 36 colonial rule, 5 colored, xv Colored population, xiv connections, 189, 190, 202 Cradock Four, 199 creation of stories, 116–20 Cronkite, Walter, 5 culture hero, 100 dance, 108, 119, 188 dance of fantasy, 44–48 Danielson, Virginia: “The Voice of Egypt,” 222n10 dassie, 42, 50, 55, 211n11 Díä!kwăin, 46–47; “The Broken String,” 213n52; “Concerning Two Apparitions,” 78–81, 216nn69–71; “A Man Becomes Clouds,” 81–82; photograph, 78; “The Scapegoat,” 77–78; “Young Girls,” 66–69 diamonds, xiv, 8 Diko, Mditshwa, 3 Djebar, Assia: Fantasia, 202 Dlamini, Sarah: “A Boy Goes After a Nyanyabulembu,” 130...