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...

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.