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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... . Zenani. Tales and Observations from the Xhosa Oral Tradition Nongenile Masithathu Zenani Edited , with an Introduction . by Harold Scheub A The World and the Word Nongenile Masithathu Zenani . " The WORLD AND WORD Front Cover.
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... Masithathu Zenani Collected and edited , with an introduction , commentaries , and annotations by Harold Scheub The University of Wisconsin Press The University of Wisconsin Press 114 North Murray Street Madison Copyrighted Material The ...
... Masithathu . The world and the word : tales and observations from the Xhosa oral tradition / Nongenile Masithathu Zenani ; collected and edited , with an introduction , commentaries , and annotations by Harold Scheub . 512 pp . ст ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Art of the Storyteller | 7 |
PrologueOrigins | 9 |
Birth | 17 |
Puberty | 79 |
Marriage | 267 |
Maturity | 371 |
The End of the Affair | 482 |
Appendix | 489 |