Shadows: Deeper into Story

by Harold Scheub

Building on his previous work, Story, Harold Scheub proves that he is one of the most knowledgeable specialists in the area of the story and story analysis. In Shadows, Scheub broadens his analysis outside the realm of the African stories in Story. Scheub’s extraordinary analysis brings to the surface the layers, the deeper meanings that he calls shadows of stories, originating in Europe, North America, and Asia—from the early African oral story to the more contemporary stories of Eudora Welty.

Harold Scheub is the Evjue-Bascom Professor of Humanities in the Department of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

A review of Shadows appeared in the December 2009 issue of CHOICE magazine stating, "Shadows roams well beyond tales from southern Africa…providing an erudite, lyrical, and illuminating excursion into the world of storytelling."

398 pages, Softcover

First published June 1, 2009