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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... home of Mrs. Zenani , in Nkanga , Gatyana District , the Transkei . Audience : Members of Mrs. Zenani's family - her husband , her daughter , her granddaughter . ( NS - 10 . ) The time will come when the boy grows older here at his home ...
Tales and Observations from the Xhosa Oral Tradition Nongenile M. Zenani Harold Scheub. TALES Tale 4 THE BOY AND THE LIZARD Masithathu Zenani's Analysis : The storyteller here emphasizes the necessity of a child's absence from home ...
... Zenani's Analysis : The central pattern of this story has to do with a ... home , and he is brought up there . In the benevolent swallowing of a child ... home life that drives a youth into nature where he is nurtured into manhood by a ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Copyright | |
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