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A.C. Jordan

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Description:Archibald Campbell Mzolisa Jordan was born on a mission in the Transkei and studied literary Xhosa at the University of Cape Town. His classic Xhosa novel, Ingqumbo Yezinyanya (1940) was later translated by the author and his wife, Phyllis Ntantala, into English as The Wrath of the Ancestors (1980). This novel, considered as one of the masterpieces of Xhosa writing and South African literature, was translated into Afrikaans as Die Toorn van die Voorvaders, published in 1990, and a Dutch translation, De Wraak van het Voorgeslacht, appearing in the classic African Writers Series in the Netherlands in 1999. The novel tells a gripping epic-tragic tale of the conflicting forces of Western education and Xhosa traditional beliefs amongst the “School people” and the “Ochre people” of the Mpondomise people.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Wrath of the Ancestors. To get started finding The Wrath of the Ancestors, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Archibald Campbell Mzolisa Jordan was born on a mission in the Transkei and studied literary Xhosa at the University of Cape Town. His classic Xhosa novel, Ingqumbo Yezinyanya (1940) was later translated by the author and his wife, Phyllis Ntantala, into English as The Wrath of the Ancestors (1980). This novel, considered as one of the masterpieces of Xhosa writing and South African literature, was translated into Afrikaans as Die Toorn van die Voorvaders, published in 1990, and a Dutch translation, De Wraak van het Voorgeslacht, appearing in the classic African Writers Series in the Netherlands in 1999. The novel tells a gripping epic-tragic tale of the conflicting forces of Western education and Xhosa traditional beliefs amongst the “School people” and the “Ochre people” of the Mpondomise people.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Wrath of the Ancestors. To get started finding The Wrath of the Ancestors, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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