a.k.a. Breyten Breytenbach : : Critical Approaches to his Writings and Paintings / / edited by Judith Lütge Coullie, J.U. Jacobs.

• Superior document: Cross/Cultures ; 75
• TeilnehmendeR: Coullie, Judith Lütge,; Jacobs, J.U.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/Cultures ; 75.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The essays in this volume hold up for scrutiny, in diverse ways, many facets of the artistic output of Breyten Breytenbach, the Afrikaans poet who first became a public figure in apartheid South Africa - his poetry, his fictional and non-fictional prose, his plays, and his painting and drawing. The approaches adopted by the authors of the essays range from the largely theoretical to the more popular forms of the interview and the review. Collectively, they represent a kaleidoscope of approaches, viewpoints and foci; their various critical and analytical colorations make up a timely statement about the centrality of this important artist's creativity, engagement, 'exile' and belongness to a land once impacting under its own contradictions and now experiencing an efflorescence that still harbours the paradoxes that Breytenbach's protean craft uncompromisingly anatomizes. Contributors are: Ampie Coetzee, J.M. Coetzee, Judith Lütge Coullie, Ileana Dimitriu, J.U. Jacobs, Tim Trengove, Jones, Erhard Reckwitz, Sandra Saayman, Marilet Sienaert, Lisbe Smuts, Louise Viljoen, Andries Visagie.

Table of Contents

Illustrations -- Introduction - In Other Words: Breyten Breytenbach -- 1. Breytenbach and His Fathers: The Early Poetry -- - Louise Viljoen -- 2. Poetry as the Presentation of a Representation -- - Ampie Coetzee -- 3. "'I' is a Complex Place": Transforming and Disseminating -- the Subject in the Poetry -- - Lisbé Smuts -- 4. Breyten Breytenbach and the Reader in the Mirror -- - J. M. Coetzee -- 5. Broken Mirror: The Prison Memoirs -- - Erhard Reckwitz -- 6. Carnivalesque Rituals of Renewal: The True Confessions -- of an Albino Terrorist and The Man Died -- - Ileana Dimitriu -- 7. Writing Africa -- - J. U. Jacobs -- 8. From Dream to Waking and Back Again: An A-Z Guide -- to the Critical Writing -- - Judith Lütge Coullie -- 9. The I of the Beholder: Identity and Place in the Art and Writing -- - Marilet Sienaert -- 10. A Detail: The Butterfly in "The Thieves and the Word" -- from All One Horse -- - Sandra Saayman -- 11. Dancing the Dog: Paintings and Other Pornographics -- - Marilet Sienaert -- 12. Dog Heart: Heartland, Border Area -- and the Politics of Remembering -- - Tim Trengove Jones -- 13. Breytenbach and the Masculine Subject -- - Andries Visagie -- 14. Playing the Poet in Boklied and Die Toneelstuk -- - Louise Viljoen -- Contributors.