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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... body , and facial expression 252 Going to the market 282 The storyteller in a didactic mood 301 " Even the child's name was forgotten . " The words are given resonance in the body 326 An evening dance 342 With the music of the words , the ...
... body and the resulting har- monizing of the body movements of the members of the audience , some- times physical , always an emotional harmonizing . In some , if not all , narrative performances , the completely nonverbal movements of ...
... body movements also . When she is acting out a character , her gestures are primarily complementary ; as the ... body movement , based on the artist's body and its proximity to what is transpiring in the narrative , is established . The ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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