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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... Don't you do what I did , my child . Don't use me as a model . What I did , I did not do deliberately . I was driven to it by some outside force ! " The boy , now a young man , was quiet . Then he said to the lizard , " Would it be all ...
... Don't take the children to that home- stead because no one sleeps there . That homestead is not to be entered . If we go there , the children will die . " Sitshalotshalwana stood up . As he stood , the boys said , " Yo ! At last , the ...
... Don't agree to enter that house ! Say ' We don't stay in such a beautiful house . ' Tell them that you want to stay in a house in which calves are tethered , a house where the fowl sleep . " They'll bring a new sleeping mat to you . Say ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Copyright | |
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