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Parallel Press captures South African oral traditions
By Michael Worringer
Library Communications
Posted 9/25/2006
MADISON, Wis. —Stories and conversations that UW–Madison Professor Harold Scheub recorded in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and has used for many years in teaching his renowned course “The African Storyteller” are now part of a new three-volume set from Parallel Press, South African Voices.
In Africa, Scheub, the Evjue-Bascom Professor of the Humanities in the Department of African Languages and Literature at UW–Madison, recorded performances by the Xhosa storyteller Nogenile Masithathu Zenani and other Xhosa and Zulu historians and poets as he walked along the southeastern coastal areas of Africa. These recordings and translations are represented in three volumes in South African Voices: “A Long Time Passed,” “Created in Olden Times,” and “The Way We Travelled: Oral History and Poetry.”
Parallel Press is an imprint of the UW–Madison Libraries. It publishes important, but in many cases out-of-print, research in print and digital format. Many of these works continue to be cited by current researchers and scholars, making them valuable references. In keeping with the Wisconsin Idea and promoting scholarly communication, Parallel Press also makes these works available in digital format. South African Voices is available in digital at http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/SouAfrVc.
For more information, visit http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu/books/
Orders may be sent to:
The Parallel Press
372 Memorial Library
728 State Street
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 262-2600
