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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... Zenani on Storytelling Commentaries 269 Marriage in the Early Times A Mother Who Had No Son Tales 272 Nongenile Masithathu Zenani Gets Married 283 300 15. A Poor Girl Marries a King 325 16. The Baboon's Wedding 335 17. Hamiose , The ...
... Zenani , taping and filming her repertory of imaginative tales , along with autobiographical and ethnographic material , identified here as " Commentaries . " In the commentaries as in the tales , I have taken great care not to ...
Tales and Observations from the Xhosa Oral Tradition Nongenile M. Zenani Harold Scheub. INTRODUCTION MASITHATHU ZENANI ON STORYTELLING Storytelling , said Masithathu Zenani , is a sensory union of image and idea , a process of recreating ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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