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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... Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling Commentaries 269 Marriage in the Early Times 272 Nongenile Masithathu Zenani Gets Married 283 A Mother Who Had No Son 300 Tales 15. A Poor Girl Marries a King 325 16. The Baboon's Wedding 335 17 ...
Tales and Observations from the Xhosa Oral Tradition Nongenile M. Zenani Harold Scheub. INTRODUCTION MASITHATHU ZENANI ON STORYTELLING Storytelling , said Masithathu Zenani , is a sensory union of image and idea , a process of recreating ...
... MASITHATHU ZENANI BECOMES A DOCTOR Performance Note Time : 12 August 1972 , in the morning . Place : In a fallen rondavel , in Nkanga , Gatyana District , the Transkei . Audience : Five women , including Mrs. Zenani's sister , two ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Copyright | |
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