Download or read book The Plague Years written by Michael Titlestad and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plague Years collects scholarly and essayistic reflections on literary, visual, and sonic representations of the COVID-19 and other pandemics. These are placed alongside poetry and short fiction written in the first two years of quarantine or isolation. This range expresses the intellectual and imaginative struggle and ingenuity entailed in coming to terms with the rampant spread of disease and its emotional, cultural, and political consequences. The contributions are from diverse contexts: Africa (from Egypt to South Africa), China, Japan, the US, and Scandinavia. They consider some of the array of contemporary engagements: poems translated from Mandarin about the traumas of the frontline, Chinese calligraphic poetry printed on cartons of PPE, comments on the literary history of representing epidemics and pandemics, political analyses of the post-truth present, and the role of life-writing and gaming in an interrupted world. Given the generative and creative obliquity of many of its parts, this collection shifts how one thinks about the diseased present and the archival pasts on which it draws. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of English Studies in Africa.

Download or read book Botsotso 16 poetry short fiction essays photographs and drawings written by Botsotso and published by Botsotso Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Botsotso literary journal started in 1996 as a monthly 4 page insert in the New Nation, an independent anti-apartheid South African weekly and reached over 80,000 people at a time – largely politisized black workers and youth – with a selection of poems, short stories and short essays that reflected the deep changes taking place in the country at that time. Since the closure of the New Nation in 1999, the journal has evolved into a stand-alone compilation featuring the same mix of genres, and with the addition of photo essays and reviews. The Botsotso editorial policy remains committed to creating a mix of voices which highlight the diverse spectrum of South African identities and languages, particularly those that are dedicated to radical expression and examinations of South Africa's complex society.

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Download or read book Malikhanye written by Mxolisi Nyezwa and published by Deep South Pub. This book was released on 2011 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mxolisi Nyezwa's poems are both violent and tender, with an immediacy of language that strikes the reader like a cry, or a note of music. Malikhanye is his third book of poems after Song Trials (2000) and New Country (2008). The book's title comes from the extended lyrical sequence following the death of his infant son Malikhanye, a poem of astonishing humility and beauty. With what has been described as the softest of voices, poet Mxolisi Nyezwa created one of the biggest stirs at the 2008 Poetry Africa festival in Durban, where Nyezwa launched his second collection, a volume called New Country. His readings drew enthusiastic acclaim - and great curiosity from those unfamiliar with his work. Ben Williams, editor, book.co.za October 2008 As with the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Mxolisi Nyezwa's poems register a chilling, physical response before the mind can fully apprehend their meaning. Rather than lull the reader with pretty lyricism, Nyezwa's work strives for transcendence suffused with pain, driving the arrow-tip of searching ever on. Kobus Moolman, writing about New Country Nyezwa characteristically works through an associative poetry, juxtaposing macro- and microcosm, the familiar and the surreal, the local and the universal; often jumping between the five senses [...] This collection extends and invigorates the concerns of the South African lyric in new and breathtaking directions, and I do not believe that tired old genre will ever be the same again. There are poems here as near perfect as anything to be found in the history of our poetry... Kelwyn Sole, reviewing Nyezwa's first collection Song Trials, Mail & Guardian June 2000 Nyezwa grew up in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, where he still lives. He runs a shop and business support service from a steel container in Motherwell township. He is founder and editor of the cultural magazine Kotaz, now in its 14th year.

Download or read book Black Consciousness and South Africa s National Literature written by Tom Penfold and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses Black Consciousness poetry and theatre from the 1970s through to the present. South Africa’s literature, like its history, has been beset by disagreement and contradiction, and has been consistently difficult to pin down as one, united entity. Much existing criticism on South Africa’s national literature has attempted to overcome these divisions by discussing material written from a variety of different subject positions together. This book argues that Black Consciousness desired a new South Africa where African and European cultures were valued equally, and writers could represent both as they wished. Thus, a body of literature was created that addressed a range of audiences and imagined the South African nation in different ways. This book explores Black Consciousness in order to demonstrate how South African writers have responded in various ways to the changing history and politics of their country.

Download or read book Making Another World Possible written by Corina L. Apostol and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Another World Possible offers a broad look at an array of socially engaged cultural practices that have become increasingly visible in the past decade, across diverse fields such as visual art, performance, theater, activism, architecture, urban planning, pedagogy, and ecology. Part I of the book introduces the reader to the field of socially engaged art and cultural practice, spanning the past ten years of dynamism and development. Part II presents a visually striking summary of key events from 1945 to the present, offering an expansive view of socially engaged art throughout history, and Part III offers an overview of the current state of the field, elucidating some of the key issues facing practitioners and communities. Finally, Part IV identifies ten global issues and, in turn, documents 100 key artistic projects from around the world to illustrate the various critical, aesthetic and political modes in which artists, cultural workers, and communities are responding to these issues from their specific local contexts. This is a much needed and timely archive that broadens and deepens the conversation on socially engaged art and culture. It includes commissioned essays from noted critics, practitioners, and theorists in the field, as well as key examples that allow insights into methodologies, contextualize the conditions of sites, and broaden the range of what constitutes an engaged culture. Of interest to a wide range of readers, from practitioners and scholars of performance to curators and historians, Making Another World Possible offers both breadth and depth, spanning history and individual works, to offer a unique insight into the field of socially engaged art.

Download or read book In the Heat of Shadows written by Hirson, Denis and published by Deep South. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South African poetry today is charged with restlessness, burstng with diversity. Gone is the intense inward focus required to deal with a situation of systematic oppression, the enclosing effort of concentration on a single predicament. While politics and identity continue to be central themes, the poetry since the late 1990s reveals a richer investigation of ancestors and history, alongside more experimentation with language and translation; and enduring concern with the touchstones of love, loss, memory, and acts of witnessing. In the Heat of Shadows: South African Poetry 1996-2013 presents work by 33 poets and includes some translations from Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho and Xitsonga. This collection follows on from Denis Hirson’s 1997 anthology The Lava of this Land: South African Poetry 1960-1996.

Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English written by Jeremy Noel-Tod and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.

Download or read book Bhlawa s Inconsolable Spirits written by Mxolisi Nyezwa and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2023-03-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bhlawa’s Inconsolable Spirits is startling, often humorous, always graphic. Determined to understand everything, the young Nyezwa turns to writing to “train himself to see”. In Nyezwa’s vision no boundaries exist between imagination, day-to-day survival, spiritual reality, and economic violence: “What everyone saw up there at night in Bhlawa, and called the moon, was just the hungry face of God.”

Download or read book a naked bone written by Buzani, Mangaliso and published by Deep South. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In simple vocabulary a naked bone describes complex states of beauty and suffering, often at the borderline where life meets death. In their dreamlike rhythms and images, the poems draw strength from Xhosa culture, Christianity, and elements of nature. They are love poems in the widest sense, embracing the interface between daily life and the spiritual, enacting joy and caring in the face of deprivation and mourning.

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Download or read book The Institute for Taxi Poetry written by Imraan Coovadia and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solly Greenfields, the first of the taxi poets, has been shot dead. At the Institute for Taxi Poetry, where they train young people to write poetry on the bodywork of Cape Town's taxis, Solly's protégé Adam Ravens tries to make sense of his death. Who killed Solly, and why is Adam's son acting so odd? In the world of Imraan Coovadia's new tragicomic novel taxi companies thrive in a single-party state. Taxi poets are admired, sliding-door men rule, professors and politicians strut and fret and connive in a society shaped by violence and ambition, love, and the unsettling power of the imagination.

Download or read book Song Trials written by Mxolisi Nyezwa and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first volume of poetry, Nyezwa shifts South African lyrical poetry into powerful and strange landscapes. These are associative poems which move rapidly through multiple dimensions. They encompass the spiritual, the political and the bleakness of the everyday with a fluency of language and compelling deftness of image.

Download or read book An Analysis of the Impact of FDI in Developing Countries Based on Preconditions Absorptive Capacity and Benefits written by Malikhanye Mabena and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book New Country written by Mxolisi Nyezwa and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "for days i looked for my poems in the streets, and since i could not find them, light fell like a flower on the lonely square. - the light sounded the drum of a thud. beauty came grovelling forward begging, and children went for days without food." * Poetry is a simple way to remind us of our humanity. It guards against placing blind faith in the sciences which are constricting to the human spirit. In poetry, we discover our basic selves. Intensely lyrical and deeply expressionist, the poems of New Country register the intuitiveness of Mxolisi Nyezwa's vision of his land and his life. Nyezwa has carved for himself a voice and a style that is entirely his own and unlike any South African poet before him.