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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... SIKHULUMA , THE BOY WHO DID NOT SPEAK Masithathu Zenani's Analysis : " Sikhuluma ” is a tale that treats a boy's move- ment through puberty and beyond , to his marriage . Rites of passage always emphasize crises in people's lives , as ...
... Sikhuluma who spoke against him . Since this was the first day that he had spoken , what could he know ? After they had finished eating , they slept . During the night , while they were sleeping , Sikhuluma just sat there . He was not ...
... Sikhuluma stepped on a place that had soil , even though he had been warned by the mouse that he should never tread on earth , that he should always walk on a place that had grass . If he walked on earth , he had been warned , the ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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