The World and the Word: Tales and Observations from the Xhosa Oral TraditionA master storyteller of the Xhosa people of South Africa, Nongenile Masithathu Zenani gives us an unprecedented view of an oral society from within. Twenty-four of her complex and beautiful tales about birth, puberty, marriage, and work, as told to the renowned collector of African oral tradition, Harold Scheub, are gathered here. Accompanying the stories are Zenani’s detailed commentaries and analyses and Scheub’s striking photographs of her in performance. The combination of these historical and cultural observations with a richly symbolic collection of tales from a single traditional storyteller make The World and the Word a remarkable document. |
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... Nobani ! Please come here ! " The strangers were sitting in the courtyard . " Please come here ! " She came . " What's all this about a young woman who has been seen here ? " That very Mbulukazi came out immediately . " Mother , these ...
... Nobani . " She responded . " Wife , I think that we should give this wife an ' axe . ' This ' giving of the axe ' means that we should build for her her own homestead , the home- stead of the right - hand house . " The wife said , " But ...
... Nobani , just sit down here . I'll tell you . " His wife sat . " I was eating resin , Nobani . And while I was eating it , I suddenly saw something that was clinging to me . This thing had attached itself to me . It clawed me . It ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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