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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... traveled and traveled . Night pushed on , it also traveled . Malejese journeyed a long time , and he continued to look behind because he was very anxious about this thing . Finally , when he looked back , he saw it - he saw that it was ...
... traveled then , still walking with these two old men of his father , those old men who had arrived at the royal residence impover- ished . He traveled and traveled , and finally he arrived at his mother's parents ' place . That morning ...
... traveled on with this wife of theirs . After a time , Sikhuluma stepped on a place that had soil , even though he had been warned by the mouse that he should never tread on earth , that he should always walk on a place that had grass ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Copyright | |
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