The lava of change has spilled over South Africa again as apartheid as ended. What sort of social and artistic emerges as it cools? This anthology, containing more than two hundred poems by over fifty poets, spans five distinct historical periods in the contemporary development of South Africa, from the 1960s Durban worker strikes to the dismantling of apartheid in the 1990s. Most of the poems have been written in English, but forty-eight have been translated from Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, and /Xam, a Bushman linguistic group. Inspired by music, by the language of the streets, by the sensual and the erotic, and by social, political, and economic turmoil, these poems showcase a remarkable complexity of literary traditions. They provide a fascinating and moving rendering of South Africa's hybrid language and unique worldview.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
ISBN-13
9780810150690
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95003700
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Lava of this Land: South African Poetry, 1960-96
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Poetry
Publication Year
1997
Author
Denis Hirson
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Denis Hirson
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Denis Hirson
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