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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... traveled and traveled . Night pushed on , it also traveled . Malejese journeyed a long time , and he continued to look behind because he was very anxious about this thing . Finally , when he looked back , he saw it - he saw that it was ...
... traveled with the old men of his father and with his father's dogs - the last of the stock . These were the only things left now , these and Malejese . He traveled and traveled . The cattle were eaten by that thing back there . They ...
... traveled on with this wife of theirs . After a time , Sikhuluma stepped on a place that had soil , even though he had been warned by the mouse that he should never tread on earth , that he should always walk on a place that had grass ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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