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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... returned with great wealth . He suddenly arrived one day , saying that he had returned . But his father did not want him . He fought with the boy . He was supposed to have been abandoned long ago , but it was ob- vious that he had been ...
... returned , he went back to his home ; he went to the right - hand house when he came back from his job . The men wanted to know why , since his father had long since died , he returned to that house instead of going to the place where ...
... returned , he said , " Here are the goods . " Someone asked , " Is everything here now ? " He said , " Do you have any pots ? How will you manage without pots ? At a bridal party , beasts are slaughtered . If you have no pots , how will ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Copyright | |
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