Author: David Ambrose
Publisher:
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Category : Sotho poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Johannes Malefetsane Lenake
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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The Poetry of K.E. Ntsane describes and evaluates the poetry of K.E. Ntsane. Human nature, biblical stories, the judgement day and death feature prominently.

Author: Kano Shoro
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1928215513
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Johannesburg performance-poet Katleho Kano Shoro puts her stage presence into print with this metapoetic debut collection that captures the cadences of her fearless voice, her unassuming sense of humour, and her enthusiasm for an Afrocentric literary culture. Katleho reflects on creativity, on the writing, reading and performance of poetry, exploring the language that structures it, the forces that inspire it and the transformation that follows our experience of it. From there her words wander through personal relationships and politics, articulating ideas about masculinity, sexuality, blackness, colonialism and our connections to those we love. Crafted with both the spoken and written word in mind, Serurubele invites you not only to read poetry but to voice it, to taste the language as it flows from your tongue, to feel its rhythms and to hear its rhyme. Katleho has performed in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Grahamstown, Swaziland and London, and has been involved in myriad African literary initiatives. Recordings of her readings can be found online.

Author: Tsiu, William Moruti
Publisher: Kwara State University Press
ISBN: 9789275919
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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This book contains a major research into, and deep investigation of Basotho language oral poetry in Lesotho at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The classical form, the dithoko, which was inspired by tribal wars or battles fought by the Basotho, is explored fully, but the absence of wars, and urbanisation with the economic and social imperatives of modernism, have inspired new forms of poetry. The new forms include dithoko, i.e. 'praise poetry'; the difela, 'mine workers' chants', and the diboko, the latter which as 'family odes', are still performed in rural areas. The research work involved the live performances of 33 diroki, i.e. poets, watched and recorded in their natural environments. The investigators were led by the late Professor Abiola Irele, then of Ohio State University.

Author: Mohale, Maneo
Publisher: uHlanga
ISBN: 0639810829
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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dear reader, are you still there? take a second, now. breathe // with me. In one of the most anticipated debut collections of recent years, Maneo Mohale reckons boldly with the experience of – and the reconstruction of a life after – a sexual assault. Mohale’s unapologetic and disarming voice carries through a budding and blooming garden of poetics, rooted in a contemporary southern African tradition, but springing forth in queer and radical new directions. Indeed, this is a work encompassing the full, often contradictory, and seldom complete process of healing: where relations must be chosen as well as made; where time becomes non-linear and language insufficient; where nothing is what it seems, yet everything is what it is.

Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher:
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1924

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1604

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Author: Russell Kaschula
Publisher: New Africa Books
ISBN: 9781919876078
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Throughout Africa, oral literature is flourishing, though it is perceived by some as anachronistic to the modern world. This work refutes this idea in its entirety by presenting 22 chapters, which firmly place the study of oral literature within contemporary African existence. The study analyzes how oral literature relates to media, music, technology, text, gender, religion, power, politics and globalization.

Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1698

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Author: B. W. Andrzejewski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521256461
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 678

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Although African literatures in English and French are widely known outside Africa, those in the African languages themselves have not received comparable attention. In this book a number have been selected for survey by fourteen specialist writers, providing the reader with an introduction to this very wide field and a body of reference material which includes extensive bibliographies and biographical information on African authors. Theoretical issues such as genre divisions are discussed in the essays and the historical, social and political forces at work in the creation and reception of African literature are examined. Literature is treated as an art whose medium is language, so that both the oral and written forms are encompassed. This book will be of value not only to readers concerned with the cultures of Africa but to all those with an interest in the literary phenomena of the world in general.