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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... Wangu , 3 and the place where the Wangu reside should become known as the place of the Wangu , to dis- tinguish it from the place of the Tshawe . They should now establish their own place , they should multiply their numbers and ...
... Wangu and brought to him . She became his wife . The people in- creased in numbers over there too , but the headquarters of the Xhosa remained among the Xhosa . The Ngwevu also increased greatly , the Wangu area also grew . So it went ...
... wangu ? " He said , " I say you are a wangu ! You don't belong to this homestead because you're the child of an unmarried woman ! " He said , " What am I ? Whose child have I been all this time ? During the period that I have ruled ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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