A New Book of South African Verse in English
Author : Guy Butler
Publisher : Cape Town, South Africa : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Poetry
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Author : Guy Butler
Publisher : Cape Town, South Africa : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Poetry
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 1979
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ISBN : 9780195701418
Author : Gareth Cornwell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231503814
From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid. Because apartheid intruded on every aspect of private and public life, South African literature was preoccupied with the politics of race and social engineering. Since the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990, South Africa has been a new nation-in-the-making, inspired by a nonracial idealism yet beset by poverty and violence. South African writers have responded in various ways to Njabulo Ndebele's call to "rediscover the ordinary." The result has been a kaleidoscope of texts in which evolving cultural forms and modes of identity are rearticulated and explored. An invaluable guide for general readers as well as scholars of African literary history, this comprehensive text celebrates the multiple traditions and exciting future of the South African voice. Although the South African Constitution of 1994 recognizes no fewer than eleven official languages, English has remained the country's literary lingua franca. This book offers a narrative overview of South African literary production in English from 1945 to the postapartheid present. An introduction identifies the most interesting and noteworthy writing from the period. Alphabetical entries provide accurate and objective information on genres and writers. An appendix lists essential authors published before 1945.
Author : Stephen Gray
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
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Gathers poems by writers from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Mozambique, Angola, Malawi, Namibia, and Zambia.
Author : Jeremy Noel-Tod
Publisher :
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 13,23 MB
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199640254
This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.
Author : Michael Chapman
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 1986
Category : South African poetry (English)
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Author : John PURVES (Professor of English Language and Literature, Pretoria.)
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 1915
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Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2023
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Author : Tom Penfold
Publisher : Springer
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319579401
This book analyses Black Consciousness poetry and theatre from the 1970s through to the present. South Africa’s literature, like its history, has been beset by disagreement and contradiction, and has been consistently difficult to pin down as one, united entity. Much existing criticism on South Africa’s national literature has attempted to overcome these divisions by discussing material written from a variety of different subject positions together. This book argues that Black Consciousness desired a new South Africa where African and European cultures were valued equally, and writers could represent both as they wished. Thus, a body of literature was created that addressed a range of audiences and imagined the South African nation in different ways. This book explores Black Consciousness in order to demonstrate how South African writers have responded in various ways to the changing history and politics of their country.
Author : Ralph Nixon Currey
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780852555736
R.N. Currey's poetry records what happens to men in war and life. This is a collection of poems by the poet and writer R.N. Currey. Born in Mafeking in 1907, R.N. Currey was a soldier, poet and at one time a school teacher in Colchester. R.N. Currey is a poet who has pleased poets: T.S.Eliot told him in 1945 that his collection This Other Planet was 'the best war poetry I have seen in these last six years'; Dylan Thomas was so taken with the wit of 'Pelican, St James's Park' that he recited it from memory on a traffic island in front of the BBC just after he had met R.N. Currey for the first time; Roy Campbell, Guy Butler and Jack Cope claimed his work for South Africa.