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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... performance , particularly by the pattern- ing of image , body , and emotion . Story occurs within the mesmerizing , unreal realm of performance , a world unto itself — whole , with its own set of laws . Patterning comprises the ...
... performance , and they are compatible with the conflict - resolu- tion movement of the plotted images , the development of which owes much to the repetition - predictability combination . But in complex per- formances , these two sets ...
... performances . Real time is independent of the performance , for example , and within the work of art is narrative time , chronological time involved in the linear movement of images be- tween an initial conflict and an ultimate ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Copyright | |
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