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| Title: | The root and tip of the ||kwanna: introducing chiasmus in |xam narratives |
| Author: | Rusch, Neil |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Periodical: | Critical Arts: A Journal of Media Studies (ISSN 1992-6049) |
| Volume: | 30 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Pages: | 877-897 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | San storytelling oral literature |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2016.1263219 |
| Abstract: | This article considers the rhetorical figure chiasmus, or ring composition, as it appears in narratives told by the 19th-century |xam storyteller, ||kabbo. Chiasmus is contextualised against broader cosmological considerations in a close inter-textual reading that highlights chiasmus as a mnemonic device. It is the contention of this article that chiasmus is embodied and finds particular specificity in '||kabbo's intended return home'. Embodiment implicates kinesthetic attentiveness and somatic sensitivity, which this article explores as they apply to storytelling and endurance running (persistence hunting) as practised by ||kabbo. Finally, embodiment is shown to be signified in a variety of representative schema such as story, map and rock engravings, which intertwine with motility, wind, paths, death and !k'augen (death influence). Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |