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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... wife , " Wife , the fields are not yielding much . I think that I should take another wife . She can be the right - hand house , the wife of the right - hand house . " 28 His wife said , " I am opposed to a second wife in this homestead ...
... WIFE Masithathu Zenani's Analysis : The conflict in this story has to do with jeal- ousy , of one co - wife for another . The pattern has to do with the repeated efforts of the senior wife to kill the junior wife . These deadly plans ...
... wife's initial position in her hus- band's homestead , as are plenty and the wife's new position in that home- stead . It is the logic of this narrative that the food sent by the in - laws ( normal food - corn , etc. ) , which might ...
Contents
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Tales | 27 |
Copyright | |
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