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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... Speak 222 13. The Boy Who Did Not Want His Sister to Marry 14. A Court Trial 251 260 PART 3 MARRIAGE Introduction : Masithathu Zenani on Storytelling 269 Commentaries Marriage in the Early Times A Mother Who Had No Son Tales 272 ...
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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 |