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South African Voices
Harold Scheub
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The three South African Voices volumes shown below are my Xhosa and Zulu transcriptions of oral narratives, histories, and poems that I collected in the late 1960s and in the 1970s in South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. Click here for the website that has to do with these three volumes. South African Voices, the three volumes, print versions, and the voices of the storytellers, were placed on the internet in the summer of 2006. The Memorial Library of the University of Wisconsin has just completed the digitization of my entire collection, consisting of some 8,000 performances, 3,000 photographs and slides, and motion pictures. These will ultimately also be put on the web and made available worldwide, at no charge. The book on two Zulu women, one of them, Lydia umkaSethemba, was one of Africa's greatest storytellers. Her stories were collected in 1868 by Henry Callaway. One hundred years later, in 1972, I worked with a Zulu storyteller whose name is Asilita Philisiwe Khumalo. In this book, I include stories, in English translation, by the two storytellers, with commentary analyzing the stories and comparing the two storytellers' work. South African Voices: A Long Time Passed. Xhosa transcriptions of oral performances of Nongenile Masithathu Zenani. Madison, WI: Parallel Press, 2006. South African Voices: Created in Olden Times. Xhosa transcriptions of oral performances of Nongenile Masithathu Zenani. Madison, WI: Parallel Press, 2006. South African Voices: The Way We Traveled. Oral History and Poetry. Transcriptions of Xhosa and Zulu oral performances. Madison, WI: Parallel Press, 2006. Storytelling Songs of Zulu Women: Recording Archetype Rites of Passage and Mythic Paths. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. |