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Title:Literature and resistance in South Africa: two Zulu poets
Author:Mootry, Maria K.
Year:1973
Periodical:African Literature Today
Issue:6
Pages:112-129
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:poetry
national liberation movements
Abstract:According to Frantz Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth. New York, 1968), an intellectual whose people are an oppressed group struggling for new or renewed nationhood and who wants to fulfil a task in this struggle, first must undergo a process of evolution: 1) the intellectual assimilates the colonizer's culture; 2) he rejects this culture violently; 3) he creates a national literature or art based on the dynamic fight for freedom. The author supposes that an intellectual's thought and its expression could reflect two or three stages of evolution at once. To demonstrate this she analyses works of two Zulu poets: - Benedict Wallet Vilakazi and Herbert Dhlomo. Notes.
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