The Poetry of Commitment in South Africa
Author : Jacques Alvarez-Péreyre
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : Jacques Alvarez-Péreyre
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : David Olusegun Agbaje, Ph.D
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1398428728
What is literature? What is poetry? How do poets committed to the idea of using poetry as a weapon of socio-cultural and political struggle manage to impress their works in the minds and memories of men long after the struggle has been fought and won or lost? What will a new generation of poets write about after the explosive social contradictions that inspired older poets have been resolved? Why do the themes and styles of poets in transitional societies change along with human fortunes and circumstances? This book provides answers to these questions and more... using the poetic heritage of South Africa. It is a compelling pedagogic work, a must-read for every student, researcher and teacher of African poetry, and a collector’s item for the general public.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9401207844
This collection ranges far and wide, as befits the personality and accomplishments of the dedicatee, Geoffrey V. Davis, German studies and exile literature scholar, postcolonialist (if there are ‘specialties’, then Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Black Britain), journal and book series editor.... Themes covered include publishing in Africa, charisma in African drama, the rediscovery of apartheid-era South African literature, Truth and Reconciliation commissions, South African cinema, children’s theatre in England and Eritrea, and the Third Chimurenga in literary anthologies. Surveyed are texts from Botswana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Writers discussed (or interviewed: Angela Makholwa) include Ayi Kwei Armah, Seydou Badian, J.M. Coetzee, Chielo Zona Eze, Ruth First, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bessie Head, Ian Holding, Kavevangua Kahengua, Njabulo Ndebele, Lara Foot Newton, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o/Micere Githae Mugo, Sol Plaatje, Ken Saro–Wiwa, Mongane Wally Serote, Wole Soyinka, and Ed¬gar Wallace, together with essays on the artist Sokari Douglas Camp and the filmmaker Rayda Jacobs. Because Geoff’s commitment to literature has always been ‘hands-on’, the book closes with a selection of poems and an entertaining travelogue/memoir.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9401207852
This collection ranges far and wide, as befits the personality and accomplishments of the dedicatee, Geoffrey V. Davis, German studies and exile literature scholar, postcolonialist (if there are ‘specialties’, then Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Black Britain), journal and book series editor.... The volume opens with essays on cultural theory and practice, proceeds to close analyses of ‘settler colony’ texts from Canada, India, Australia, and New Zealand (drama, fiction, and poetry) as well as Pacific drama and Canadian indigeneity, thence ‘homeward’ to the UK (black drama, Scottish fiction, the music of Morrissey) and to German themes (exile literature; fictions about Hitler). Because Geoff’s commitment to literature has always been ‘hands-on’, the book closes with a selection of poems and experimental prose. Writers discussed include Carmen Aguirre, Hany Abu-Assad, Beryl Bainbridge, Albert Belz, Peter Bland, Peter Carey, Lynda Chanwai–Earle, Kamala Das, Robert Drewe, Éric Emmanuel–Schmitt, Toa Fraser, Stephen Fry, Dianna Fuemana, Mavis Gallant, Alasdair Gray, Xavier Her¬bert, Janette Turner Hospital, Elizabeth Jolley, Wendy Lill, Varanasi Nagalakshmi, Arundhati Roy, Daniel Sloate, Drew Hayden Taylor, Jane Urquhart, Roy Williams, and Arnold Zweig.
Author : Ph D David Olusegun Agbaje
Publisher : Austin Macauley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2024-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781398428706
What is literature? What is poetry? How do poets committed to the idea of using poetry as a weapon of socio-cultural and political struggle manage to impress their works in the minds and memories of men long after the struggle has been fought and won or lost? What will a new generation of poets write about after the explosive social contradictions that inspired older poets have been resolved? Why do the themes and styles of poets in transitional societies change along with human fortunes and circumstances? This book provides answers to these questions and more... using the poetic heritage of South Africa. It is a compelling pedagogic work, a must-read for every student, researcher and teacher of African poetry, and a collector's item for the general public.
Author : Udenta O. Udenta
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 11,96 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Neil Roberts
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470797479
In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the 'canonical' and the 'marginal' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various national traditions. Discussion of context, intertextualities and formal approaches illustrates the increasing self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the period, whilst a 'Readings' section offers new readings of key selected texts. The volume as a whole offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century.
Author : Vukani Mde
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,71 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literature and state
ISBN :
Author : Mary K. DeShazer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472065639
A survey of the empowering poetry of politically active women in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States.
Author : Craig W. McLuckie
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780894107696
Poet, activist, teacher, and scholar, Dennis Brutus is an influential figure in African literature. Exploring his life and writings, this volume looks at Brutus's childhood, university days, his arrest and imprisonment, and his eventual return to South Africa in 1991.