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| Title: | South & Southern African literature: a review |
| Editors: | Jones, Eldred Durosimi Jones, Marjorie |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Periodical: | African Literature Today (ISSN 0065-4000) |
| Issue: | 23 |
| Pages: | 149 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | South Africa Zimbabwe |
| Subjects: | literature theatre songs |
| Abstract: | This special issue deals with the literary challenges South Africa faces in the postapartheid era. It also contains two contributions on contemporary writers in postindependence Zimbabwe and one on the artistic creation of the South African writer Bessie Head, who lived much of her life in Botswana. Contributions: 'Renaissance' & South African writing (Lekan Oyegoke); The changing role of poetry in the struggle for freedom, justice & equality in South Africa (Ritske Zuidema); Dramatic excavations & theatrical explorations: Faustus, Ubu & post-apartheid South African theatre (Michael Carklin); The stereotyping of whites in Xhosa prose fiction (C.R. Botha); The dynamic & transformational nature of praising in contemporary Zulu society (Noleen S. Turner); 'Structures of feeling' & constructions of history: Mazisi Kunene's 'Emperor Shaka the Great' (Duncan Brown); Popular songs & social realities in post-independence Zimbabwe (M.T. Vambe); The representation of violence, the individual, history & the land in Chinodya's 'Harvest of Thorns' & Nyamfukudza's 'The Non-Believer's Journey' (Jo Dandy); 'Speaking crystals': the poetry of Lionel Abrahams & South African liberalism (Dan Wylie); Personality & self-re-creation in Bessie Head's art (Sophia Obiajulu Ogwude); Afterword: Editing 'African Literature Today', 1968 to 2001 (Eldred Durosimi Jones). [ASC Leiden abstract] |