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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... move- ment through puberty and beyond , to his marriage . Rites of passage always emphasize crises in people's lives , as they move from one state of existence to another , and the resultant changes of identity . These rituals are ...
... move on . We should take our sticks and move on . He didn't agree . ' Let's stay . No one's going to move ! ' I said that we should go . And the boys said , ' Well , let's go ! ' " We left then . We saw a road . I warned them that we ...
... move beyond youth into adulthood . The narrative experience catches feeling and , engineering it through patterns , gives it meaning . The narratives can have no impact if they are not constructed on and of human feelings ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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