Title 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

Published Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 499 pages) : illustrations, map Contents Illustrations ; Preface ; Introduction ; The Art of the Storyteller ; Prologue-Origins ; Part 1: Birth ; Part 2: Puberty ; Part 3: Marriage ; Part 4: Maturity ; Epilogue-Destiny: The End of the Affair ; Appendix ; The Pregnant Boy ; The Broom ; Beer Making Summary A 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. "The storyteller's materials are simple," Zenani told Scheub, "the world, and the word." She presents to us the entire world of the Xhosa people, how they first came to be, the origins of their customs, how they order their world and deal with transgressors, how they manage all of life's transitions from birth to death. She depicts both the world as it exists and as it is shaped in the words of the story-teller. Inheriting tales from the Xhosa tradition, Zenani has transformed them into imaginative new stories marked by her own artistry Analysis Tales South Africa Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Xhosa (African people) -- Folklore. Tales -- South Africa Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology. Tales Xhosa (African people) Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs Volkserzählung South Africa. Xhosa. folk tales. folk tales (form) Xhosa (African people) -- Folklore. Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs. Tales -- South Africa. South Africa Xhosa. Africa -- Ethnology. Africa -- Folklore. Africa -- Social life and customs. Genre/Form Electronic books Folklore Form Electronic book Author Scheub, Harold ISBN 9780299133139 0299133133 0585271178 9780585271170

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