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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... wife . The king has already taken one of my daughters as a wife — Hlu- ngwana [ Little Raven ] from the house down below . Now he wants a right- hand wife . He says that he has seen this young woman here — this Mbulu- kazi . Now how are ...
... wife , a wife who would be able to work . The son paid them no attention , but his parents had begun to dislike this daughter - in - law of theirs . They began to refer to her in this way : " This cripple has wasted this young man's ...
... wife . He lived with this child in this home . Then her grandfather said , " Something ought to be done for this ... wife or house that is created as an adjunct to the main house or main wife . " Broom " in this sense means the one who ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling | 19 |
Copyright | |
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