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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... passed , and the house of the royal residence grad- ually lost some of its members , one after the other dying in ... passed away , one by one . Time passed , time passed , in a year perhaps one would die . Finally , in this great ...
... passed for her . During this time , the brother - in - law was just sitting around . He was bored ; he had no spirit ... passed . This month passed , and again the time for the menstrual period went by . That month also passed , and the ...
... passed then . Time passed at this home of theirs . After some time had lapsed , the people ate the crops that they had cultivated . They harvested the crops . Then winter came - and these activ- ities were all repeated . During all ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Copyright | |
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