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Parallel Press Publishes Scheub's Shadows
Posted 09/04/2009
MADISON, Wis. – The most recent book from Parallel Press is Shadows: Deeper into Story, by Professor Harold Scheub. This is the final volume of Scheub’s trilogy on storytellers and stories. The first two volumes, Story (University of Wisconsin Press, 1998) and The Poem in the Story: Music Poetry, and Narrative (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002), analyze the connections between the performer and the audience. In this third volume, Scheub moves beyond his work on early African oral and written stories to include more contemporary tales from around the world ranging from Shakespeare to Eudora Welty. His analysis brings to the surface the layers and the deeper meanings of stories that he calls shadows.
Harold Scheub is Evjue-Bascom Professor of Humanities and a member of the faculty of the Department of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has taught and conducted research in eastern and southern Africa, and has authored several other books, including The Tongue is Fire: South African Storytellers and Apartheid (University of Wisconsin Press, 1996) and A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller (Oxford University Press, 2002). He has been on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin since 1970.
The Parallel Press is an imprint of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. For more information, visit the Parallel Press' website.
Orders may be sent to:
Parallel Press
372 Memorial Library
728 State Street
Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 262-2600
