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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... head ; he threw the head outside . It was said , then , that each father should go in and cut off the head of his daughter . The men did as they were told , each one entering the house , each one cutting off his daughter's head . The heads ...
... head was in front of her . " What will I krwebede ? " " No , Krwebede , Nomanaso ! Krwebede , My daughter ! " The woman took the covering from her head and gave that to the beast . It ate the kerchief , and Nomanaso went on her way ...
... head . Nomanaso walked on with the child , and that child continued to cry because the time of its death had not yet come . He was being torn apart alive . Both of them— mother and child - cried ; both were wailing . The head ate the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Copyright | |
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