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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... live according to rules . " " We do not live according to sticks and fighting . " The argument divided the men . They were not boys , so they began now go their own way . The young men returned on Sunday morning from the young men's ...
... live . " The men said , " Where you live ? Don't you recall that you were told that you're the senior son because there's no man - child in the great house ? " " Why , then , do you insist that the dowry cattle be taken to the right ...
... live in the homestead for a year . Then it becomes neces- sary that a goat be slaughtered for the homestead . An announcement will be made : " This homestead has been built by this young man of So - and - so . " In the Xhosa idiom , it ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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