Download or read book Kontakion for You Departed written by Alan Paton and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1969 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alan Paton written by Peter F. Alexander and published by Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first full biography of South African novelist Alan Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country, is based on exclusive access to unpublished manuscripts, love letters, and diary extracts. It paints a complex and color portrait of a passionate man and of life in South Africa, with a fascinating history of the rise, and fight against, apartheid. Photos.
Download or read book Bury Me at the Marketplace written by N. Chabani Manganyi and published by Wits University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Chabani Manganyi published the first edition of selected letters twenty-five years ago as a companion volume to Exiles and Homecomings: A Biography of Es’kia Mphahlele, the idea of Mphahlele’s death was remote and poetic. The title, Bury Me at the Marketplace, suggested that immortality of a kind awaited Mphahlele, in the very coming and going of those who remember him and whose lives he touched. It suggested, too, the energy and magnanimity of Mphahlele, the man, whose personality and intellect as a writer and educator would carve an indelible place for him in South Africa’s public sphere. That death has now come and we mourn it. Manganyi’s words at the time have acquired a new significance: in the symbolic marketplace, he noted, ‘the drama of life continues relentlessly and the silence of death is unmasked for all time’. The silence of death is certainly unmasked in this volume, in its record of Mphahlele’s rich and varied life: his private words, his passions and obsessions, his arguments, his loves, hopes, achievements, and yes, even some of his failures. Here the reader will find many facets of the private man translated back into the marketplace of public memory. Despite the personal nature of the letters, the further horizons of this volume are the contours of South Africa’s literary and cultural history, the international affiliations out of which it has been formed, particularly in the diaspora that connects South Africa to the rest of the African continent and to the black presence in Europe and the United States. This selection of Mphahlele’s own letters has been greatly expanded; it has also been augmented by the addition of letters from Mphahlele’s correspondents, among them such luminaries as Langston Hughes and Nadine Gordimer. It seeks to illustrate the networks that shaped Mphahlele’s personal and intellectual life, the circuits of intimacy, intellectual inquiry, of friendship, scholarship and solidarity that he created and nurtured over the years. The letters cover the period from November 1943 to April 1987, forty-four of Mphahlele’s mature years and most of his active professional life. The correspondence is supplemented by introductory essays from the two editors, by two interviews conducted with Mphahlele by Manganyi and by Attwell’s insightful explanatory notes.
Download or read book The Prospect of Heaven written by Frederick Levison and published by Wild Goose Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to convince a younger generation that belief in an afterlife has a firm foundation, and that it springs from faith in God. Hints and guesses are gleaned from poets, artists and musicians; the witness of Scripture explored:and the communion of saints - a neglected teaching - emphasised. The late Frederick Levison was a parish minister for over forty years and was the husband of Revd Mary Levison DD who pioneered the ordination of women in the Church of Scotland.
Download or read book Derek Mahon A Retrospective written by Nicholas Grene and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Mahon (1941–2020) is widely recognized as one of the most important Irish poets of his generation. This collection of new critical essays offers an important retrospective assessment of the nature of his poetic achievement. Bringing together many leading scholars of modern and contemporary Irish poetry, including a notable number of accomplished poet-critics, its contributors range widely across Mahon’s body of work. Their essays offer fresh considerations of the biographical, geographical and literary contexts that shaped his poetic voice. This includes paying attention not only to more familiar influences but also to previously little considered interlocutors. The stylistic and formal achievement of his voice is re-evaluated in ways that range from attentive close readings to considerations of his controversial practice of self-revision, and his engagements with music and experiments in translation. The politics of a poet often misleadingly considered apolitical are also reframed to take in the engagements of his early work through to the ecocritical commitment of his later poetry. Indeed, a notable aspect of this book is the consideration it gives to all the phases of Mahon’s career. As a whole, the collection opens up many new ways of reading and understanding Mahon’s important body of work.
Download or read book Diepkloof written by Alan Paton and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of South African Literature written by Christopher Heywood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical study of South African literature, from colonial and pre-colonial times onwards. Christopher Heywood discusses selected poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. The discussion includes over 100 authors and selected works, including poets from Mqhayi, Marais and Campbell to Butler, Serote and Krog, theatre writers from Boniface and Black to Fugard and Mda, and fiction writers from Schreiner and Plaatje to Bessie Head and the Nobel prizewinners Gordimer and Coetzee. The literature is explored in the setting of crises leading to the formation of modern South Africa, notably the rise and fall of the Emperor Shaka's Zulu kingdom, the Colenso crisis, industrialisation, the colonial and post-colonial wars of 1899, 1914, and 1939, and the dissolution of apartheid society. In Heywood's study, South African literature emerges as among the great literatures of the modern world.
Download or read book Twentieth Century Fiction written by George Woodcock and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-04-01 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cry the Beloved Country written by Alan Paton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty. Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, “We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony.” Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.
Download or read book Contemporary Novelists written by James Vinson and published by London : St. James Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 1674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An authoritative reference guide to the most important living novelists and short story writers in the English language."--Google Books viewed Sept. 22, 2021.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Novelists written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South African Writers written by Paul A. Scanlon and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on South African writers from the South African War or Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) to the Act of Union in 1910, when the defeated Boer republics were joined together by British Parliament into what became modern South Africa. Discusses the beginnings of South Africa literature in English, as well as the impact the discovery of gold and diamonds had. Genres mentioned include travel books, hunter-adventure romances, and South African realist fiction.
Download or read book Knocking on the Door written by Alan Paton and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1975 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of short stories, poems, essays and speeches; the writings run the range from Christian hope of overcoming injustice to deep feelings of paralysis and sterility. Chronologically arranged, they are divided into sections corresponding to Paton's life interests: penal reform, literature and opposition to apartheid, first within, and then outside the Liberal Party. The speeches and articles often refer to martyrdom; the poems range from a humorous treatment of political self-censorship to the extraordinary 1946-47 ""The Prison House,"" a powerful statement of the so-called Bettelheim syndrome of identifying with the oppressor.
Download or read book African Biography written by Virginia Curtin Knight and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents biographical entries on seventy-five noteworthy Africans, historical and contemporary, in a variety of fields, from a wide range of sub-Saharan countries.
Download or read book World Literature Criticism 1500 to the Present written by James P. Draper and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1992-08 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical excerpts about writers from 1500 to the present.
Download or read book New Blackfriars written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
