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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... homestead . Everyone knew that he was familiar with the homestead ; the members of the groom's homestead knew him , too . " No , we don't know it . It just happens that this homestead was near the road . That's why we happened to come ...
... homestead to the north of the shop ; the homestead belonged to Gomomo of the Qwambi clan . Now , when the people were at a certain curve , just before they were going over the hill at Nkanga , they stood and said , " Well now , it seems ...
... homestead was therefore made for this child , this child who was a girl . A homestead was built for her , and she remained in her homestead together with this boy . He also stayed in her homestead . There were happy people in this ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Copyright | |
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