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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... goat . When the goat bellows , it is said , " Be appeased ! " Then the goat's throat is cut , and it dies . The meat of the goat's foreleg is taken , and someone orders that a fire be kindled in the nursing mother's home . The fire is ...
... goat , that entire goat disappeared ! In a short time , the time it takes a person to blink an eye , it was approaching the second goat . Malejese drove that stock that had not yet been surrendered , and he traveled on . He traveled a ...
... goat to the doctor . When he arrived at the doctor's place , he stood in the doorway with the goat . He knocked . She was inside . He said , " Be appeased ! I'm outside here . Be appeased . I have come here to Mother , to Mother the ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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