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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... older boys ' dance will not return until sunset . REQUESTING AN OLDER BOYS ' DANCE Performance Note Time : 13 August 1972 , in the morning . Place : In a fallen rondavel near Mrs. Zenani's home in Nkanga , Gatyana District , the ...
... older boys ' dance with you . " " Where have you danced before ? " " Well , we've danced all over , from our own area to that place over there . Now we want to have an older boys ' dance with you . We've been wanting to have one with ...
... older boys ' dance . They engage in that kind of fighting , beginning with those in the junior age group . Among these older boys , those who attend the older boys ' dance , there are also boys who are called juniors . And there are ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Copyright | |
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