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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... rondavel near Mrs. Zenani's home , in Nkanga , Gatyana District , the Transkei . Audience : Two women and one teenaged boy . ( NS - 170 . ) The initiates having graduated and come out , their circumcision 112 Part Two : Puberty The ...
... rondavel near Mrs. Zenani's home in Nkanga , Gatyana District , the Transkei . Audience : Three men , three women , four children . ( Perf . NS - 173 . ) There were a man and a woman . The woman was pregnant , and she bore a child - a ...
... rondavel near Mrs. Zenani's home in Nkanga , Gatyana District , the Transkei . Audience : Three women , three teenagers , and three children . ( NS - 174 . ) A homestead does not become a respectable one if the woman does not like ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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