The Xhosa Ntsomi
By: Harold Scheub.
Series: Oxford library of African literature
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Oxford [Eng.]
Language: eng; xho
Number of pages: 446
Subjects: Storytelling -- South Africa -- Transkei.; Storytelling -- South Africa -- Zululand.; Drama -- South Africa -- Transkei.; Drama -- South Africa -- Zululand.; Xhosa (African people) -- Folklore.; Folk drama, Xhosa.; Tales -- South Africa -- Transkei.; Tales -- South Africa -- Zululand.
Description: The Xhosa ntsomi is a performing art which has, as its dynamic mainspring, a core-clinche which is, during a performance, developed, expanded, detailed, and dramatized before an audience which is itself composed of performers, everyone in a Xhosa society being a potential performer.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [432]-433.
Includes indexes.