Author: Kano Shoro
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956762326
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Serurubele Poetries is a collection of poetry written from the perspective of a young (South) African female. The poems range from prose poetry to one-liner musings. With the life cycle of a butterfly as its basis, the collection asks the reader to go through the metamorphosis. The poems seek to playfully, seriously, honestly, fictitiously live and breathe beyond just the writers imagination because that is where many of them were formed and remain. The poems never stop seeking to reflect the intersections between particularities and universalisms, multiple voices and realities, as well as the nuances embedded in any given experience.
Serurubele Poetries
Author: Kano Shoro
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956762326
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Serurubele Poetries is a collection of poetry written from the perspective of a young (South) African female. The poems range from prose poetry to one-liner musings. With the life cycle of a butterfly as its basis, the collection asks the reader to go through the metamorphosis. The poems seek to playfully, seriously, honestly, fictitiously live and breathe beyond just the writers imagination because that is where many of them were formed and remain. The poems never stop seeking to reflect the intersections between particularities and universalisms, multiple voices and realities, as well as the nuances embedded in any given experience.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956762326
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Serurubele Poetries is a collection of poetry written from the perspective of a young (South) African female. The poems range from prose poetry to one-liner musings. With the life cycle of a butterfly as its basis, the collection asks the reader to go through the metamorphosis. The poems seek to playfully, seriously, honestly, fictitiously live and breathe beyond just the writers imagination because that is where many of them were formed and remain. The poems never stop seeking to reflect the intersections between particularities and universalisms, multiple voices and realities, as well as the nuances embedded in any given experience.
Serurubele
Author: Shoro, Katleho Kano
Publisher: Modjaji Books
ISBN: 1928215289
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Serurubele means ‘butterfly’ in Sesotho. It is the art of metamorphosis, a mind in flight and the beat of poetic expression. I offer you my perspectives, my many mothers’ teachings. I present both hopelessness and moments that excite, the taxi mgosi that makes me write. 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.
Publisher: Modjaji Books
ISBN: 1928215289
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Serurubele means ‘butterfly’ in Sesotho. It is the art of metamorphosis, a mind in flight and the beat of poetic expression. I offer you my perspectives, my many mothers’ teachings. I present both hopelessness and moments that excite, the taxi mgosi that makes me write. 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.
Serurubele
Author: Kano Shoro
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1928215513
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
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.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1928215513
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
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.
The Only Magic We Know
Author: Marike Beyers
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1928215890
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Only Magic We Know is a celebration of all the poets Modjaji has published. This anthology offers a taste of the range and diversity of the poems that have appeared in the individual poets collections.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1928215890
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Only Magic We Know is a celebration of all the poets Modjaji has published. This anthology offers a taste of the range and diversity of the poems that have appeared in the individual poets collections.
The Postcolonial Animal
Author: Evan Mwangi
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472054198
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent from the field of animal studies. The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics demonstrates the importance of African writing to animal studies by analyzing how postcolonial African writing—including folktales, religion, philosophy, and anticolonial movements—has been mobilized to call for humane treatment of nonhuman others. Mwangi illustrates how African authors grapple with the possibility of an alternative to eating meat, and how they present postcolonial animal-consuming cultures as shifting toward an embrace of cultural and political practices that avoid the use of animals and minimize animal suffering. The Postcolonial Animal analyzes texts that imagine a world where animals are not abused or used as a source of food, clothing, or labor, and that offer instruction in how we might act responsibly and how we should relate to others—both human and nonhuman—in order to ensure a world free of oppression. The result is an equitable world where even those who are utterly foreign to us are accorded respect and where we recognize the rights of all marginalized groups.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472054198
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent from the field of animal studies. The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics demonstrates the importance of African writing to animal studies by analyzing how postcolonial African writing—including folktales, religion, philosophy, and anticolonial movements—has been mobilized to call for humane treatment of nonhuman others. Mwangi illustrates how African authors grapple with the possibility of an alternative to eating meat, and how they present postcolonial animal-consuming cultures as shifting toward an embrace of cultural and political practices that avoid the use of animals and minimize animal suffering. The Postcolonial Animal analyzes texts that imagine a world where animals are not abused or used as a source of food, clothing, or labor, and that offer instruction in how we might act responsibly and how we should relate to others—both human and nonhuman—in order to ensure a world free of oppression. The result is an equitable world where even those who are utterly foreign to us are accorded respect and where we recognize the rights of all marginalized groups.
Bodies of Knowledge
Author: Efua Prah
Publisher: African Sun Media
ISBN: 199120132X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Spanning the countries of South Africa, Swaziland, and Ghana, this collection of work brings into focus child and youth experience together as a collage of anthropology, creative writing, poetry, and the fine arts. Woven together by questions related to the political economy of child and youth well-being, identity formation, and the multiple layers through which children articulate their health-narrative, ‘ Bodies of Knowledge’ considers living in and coping with chronic illness, spirit-possession, and death. The growth in Critical Health Humanities and the Arts globally, suggests the desire for blended efforts to draw in a wider breadth of knowledge that cuts across the divided worlds of critical social science and the arts. This book, set in an African context, offers myriad possibilities for cross-disciplinary synergies as learning sites. It is a critical contribution to the field of children and childhood studies.
Publisher: African Sun Media
ISBN: 199120132X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Spanning the countries of South Africa, Swaziland, and Ghana, this collection of work brings into focus child and youth experience together as a collage of anthropology, creative writing, poetry, and the fine arts. Woven together by questions related to the political economy of child and youth well-being, identity formation, and the multiple layers through which children articulate their health-narrative, ‘ Bodies of Knowledge’ considers living in and coping with chronic illness, spirit-possession, and death. The growth in Critical Health Humanities and the Arts globally, suggests the desire for blended efforts to draw in a wider breadth of knowledge that cuts across the divided worlds of critical social science and the arts. This book, set in an African context, offers myriad possibilities for cross-disciplinary synergies as learning sites. It is a critical contribution to the field of children and childhood studies.
The Attribute of Poetry
Author: Galgut, Elisa
Publisher: Modjaji Books
ISBN: 1928215025
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
These deeply felt poems are at once plain-speaking and alive with complexity; Galgut's elegant response to both pain and loveliness is inspiring. Elisa Galgut teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town. She has a PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers University and a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. Her poetry has appeared in local literary journals and anthologies. She lives in Cape Town.
Publisher: Modjaji Books
ISBN: 1928215025
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
These deeply felt poems are at once plain-speaking and alive with complexity; Galgut's elegant response to both pain and loveliness is inspiring. Elisa Galgut teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town. She has a PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers University and a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. Her poetry has appeared in local literary journals and anthologies. She lives in Cape Town.
Agringada: Like a gringa, like a foreigner
Author: Ndoro, Tariro
Publisher: Modjaji Books
ISBN: 1928215769
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
You wear silence sitting on the concrete floor of a library a shroud like speech Language does not belong to you… An honest exploration of dislocation and (un)belonging in its forms: exile from language, exile from country, and exile from sanity. In her debut collection of poetry, Ndoro divides and intermingles national and personal history in an attempt to reach herself. Within its fragmented prose and lyrical poems, Agringanda is not only a celebrated capture of language but also of its intriguing subversion as it navigates meetings of class, gender, nationality and race.
Publisher: Modjaji Books
ISBN: 1928215769
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
You wear silence sitting on the concrete floor of a library a shroud like speech Language does not belong to you… An honest exploration of dislocation and (un)belonging in its forms: exile from language, exile from country, and exile from sanity. In her debut collection of poetry, Ndoro divides and intermingles national and personal history in an attempt to reach herself. Within its fragmented prose and lyrical poems, Agringanda is not only a celebrated capture of language but also of its intriguing subversion as it navigates meetings of class, gender, nationality and race.
The Summer We Didn't Die
Author: Christine Coates
Publisher: Modjaji Books
ISBN: 9781928433026
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Summer We Didn't Die is Christine Coates' third poetry collection. It is an assured, tender collection that offers the reader a way to think about the mysteries at the heart of what it means to be human, in this place and time.
Publisher: Modjaji Books
ISBN: 9781928433026
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Summer We Didn't Die is Christine Coates' third poetry collection. It is an assured, tender collection that offers the reader a way to think about the mysteries at the heart of what it means to be human, in this place and time.
Poetry in Sesotho
Author: David Ambrose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sotho poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sotho poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description