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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... audience . The storyteller breaks through the tyranny of the linear movement of the story to move the audience to deeper and more complex experiences . This is done to a great extent by juxtaposing unlike images , then reveal- ing , to ...
... audience is in apparent control of the rhythmic movement ( the performer will repeat the basic patterns until she is certain that it is in control ) , friction is introduced as the artist purposely neglects to fulfill the audi- ence's ...
... audience's awareness of images , and it therefore plays a crucial role in revealing image relationships . There is full participation by the members of the audience in the unfold- ing story . No proscenium arch exists , there is no ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Copyright | |
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