Bushman Letters

Michael Wessels lectures in the English Department of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg. He taught for many years in rural and township schools in the southern African region before becoming an academic. He is the current chair of the Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS).

• CHAPTER 1: READING NARRATIVE:Some Theoretical ConsiderationsCHAPTER 2: TEXT OR PRESENCE? On Re-reading the |Xam and the Interpretation of their NarrativesCHAPTER 3: WHOSE MYTHS ARE THE |XAM NARRATIVES? CHAPTER 4: THE QUESTION OF THE TRICKSTER: Interpreting |KaggenCHAPTER 5: READING THE HARTEBEEST: A Critical Appraisal of Roger Hewitt’s Interpretation of the |Xam NarrativesCHAPTER 6: FORAGING, TALKING AND TRICKSTERS: An Examination of the Contribution of Mathias Guenther’s Tricksters and Trancers to Reading the|Xam NarrativesCHAPTER 7: HISTORY AND INTERPRETATION: Some of the Implications of Andrew Bank’s Bushmen in a Victorian World: The Remarkable Story of the Bleek-Lloyd Collection of Bushman Folklore for Reading the |Xam NarrativesCHAPTER 8: HARE’S LIP AND CROWS’ NECKS: The Question of Origins and Versions in the |Xam StoriesCHAPTER 9: THE STORY IN WHICH ‘THE CHILDREN ARE SENT TO THROW THE SLEEPING SUN INTO THE SKY’:Power, Identity and Difference in a |Xam NarrativeCHAPTER 10: THE STORY OF ‘THE GIRL OF THE EARLY RACE WHO MADE STARS’:The Discursive Character of the |Xam TextsCHAPTER 11: RELIGION IN A |XAM NARRATIVE CHAPTER 12: ANTJIE KROG, STEPHEN WATSON AND THE METAPHYSICS OF PRESENCE