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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... stick for defense , the stick for offense , and the stick for fighting in a random , free - for - all con- test . That last stick is a knobkerrie [ a short wooden club with a knob at one end ] . When sitting about casually , each boy has ...
... stick . ' " When the child remembered that , she went to the place where she had hidden the stick . She got there , she arrived and took the stick . She re- membered that her mother had said that she should beat the ground with it and ...
... stick . She took it and said , " Stick of my mother , stick of my mother , today I am traveling . Today , I'm going away . Today , I'm going to be married . Now , all that I deserve , stick of my mother , the things that are known by ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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