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Harold Scheub

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Harold Scheub (born August 26, 1931) is an American Africanist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Scheub has recorded and compiled oral literature from across southern Africa.^[1]

Life

Born in Gary, Indiana, Scheub was aware as a child of racial segregation in Gary. His family, of German descent, experienced harassment during the Second World War. After attending a Lutheran grade school and local high school, Scheub worked in a local steel mill. He joined the US Air Force, serving as a jet mechanic. On leaving the Air Force he was able to take advantage of the G.I. Bill to fund his college education, and studied literature at the University of Michigan. After a master's degree there, he taught composition classes at Valparaiso University before teaching for two years at Masindi Senior Secondary School in Masindi, Uganda. On his return to the United States he taught again at Valparaiso. Becoming involved in the civil rights movement, he studied Swahili at UCLA in the summer of 1965. Philip Curtin invited Scheub to study for a PhD in the department of African languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin. He worked with Archibald Campbell Jordan, who encouraged him to study Xhosa and do fieldwork research in South Africa.^[2] He gained his PhD in 1969 with a thesis on the Ntsomi, a performing art practised by Xhosa women.^[3] Crawford Young offered Scheub a job at Wisconsin, and he taught there for 43 years until his retirement in December 2013.^[4]

Works

Bibliography of African oral narratives, 1971
African images, 1972
The Xhosa Ntsomi, 1975
African oral narratives, proverbs, riddles, poetry, and song, 1977
Story, 1988
The African storyteller: stories from African oral traditions, 1990
(with Nongenile Masithathu Zenani) The world and the word: tales and observations from the Xhosa oral tradition, 1992
The tongue is fire: South African storytellers and apartheid, 1996
A dictionary of African mythology: the mythmaker as storyteller, 2000
The poem in the story: music, poetry, and narrative, 2002
African tales, 2005
The uncoiling python: South African storytellers and resistance, 2010
Trickster and hero: two characters in the oral and written traditions of the world, 2012

References

1. ^Benjamin Mueller, Scholar Who Walked Through Southern Africa to Collect Tales Retires, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 14, 2014
2. ^[https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/72609/Scheub_720_index.rtf?sequence=1 Oral History Interview: Harold Scheub], University of Wisconsin, 2005
3. ^Harold Scheub, The Ntsomi: a Xhosa performing art , University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1969
4. ^Mary Ellen Gabriel, Storied professor Scheub retires after 43 years, December 13, 2016

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