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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... dance , a dance for boys . The boys are accompanied by their girlfriends . There are two grades of the dance for boys . The dance for younger boys is separate and has another name ; it is a dance of boys who are still quite young . They ...
... dance . This dance is not for uncircumcised boys ; the dance is for " raw " young men . They go to the young men's dance with the women friends they used to take to boys ' dances when they were younger . But now they have graduated ...
... dance , the clothes worn , decorations , and so on . They joke and make critical comments about the dancing of ... dance , in the morning as the sun warms things . They dance vigorously at that time ; they dance the various dances . And ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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