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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... narratives in which the expansible image sequences are not at all obvious , the nonverbal elements - abstracted now , having no clear asso- ciation with the verbal elements of the narrative in the sense of miming them - do the same work ...
... narrative can be said to approximate real time as it exists outside the narrative , in the sense that narrative time is telescoped real time . But in order for the narrative to establish any significant rela- tionship with the objective ...
... narrative time come together in this attractive manner to enable the surface of the narrative to be fractured even as narrative time remains inviolate . Repetition is thus at the very heart of oral narrative tradition . There is an ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Copyright | |
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