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The World and the Word : Tales and Observations From the Xhosa Oral Tradition by Nongenile Masithathu Zenani; collected and edited, with an introduction, commentaries, and annotations by Harold Scheub is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The World and the Word : Tales and Observations From the Xhosa Oral Tradition about?

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 storyteller. Inheriting tales from the Xhosa tradition, Zenani has transformed them into imaginative new stories marked by her own artist

Who reads The World and the Word : Tales and Observations From the Xhosa Oral Tradition?

Author

Nongenile Masithathu Zenani; collected and edited, with an introduction, commentaries, and annotations by Harold Scheub

Publisher

The University of Wisconsin Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780299133139

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Folklore