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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... kind of frog is this ? " " Was there ever such a big frog ? " " It's as big as a house ! " " This is the kind of creature that just begs to be beaten ! " The boys unfastened their fighting sticks , preparing to beat the frog . When they ...
... kind of doctor who , after he has examined his patient , draws out with his mouth the thing that is inside the patient , that is hurt- ing the patient ; he extracts it with his mouth . This is the single compe- tence of that kind of ...
... kind of doctor unlike any known in the past . This kind of doctor proceeds in a strange manner . He knows things not known before , things that are not as they were at the beginning . A medi- cine - an herb that has been powdered - is ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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