Writing my reading : : essays on literary politics in South Africa / / Peter Horn.
These essays are interventions in a cultural contestation in South Africa during the Seventies and Eighties. Some of them are more general in nature and were written in the first instance as public oral interventions in debates whose outcome contributed to the founding of South Africa's post-ap...
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Horn, Peter, 1934-2019, author. Writing my reading : essays on literary politics in South Africa / Peter Horn. Amsterdam ; Atlanta, Georgia : Editions Rodopi B.V., [1994] ©1994 1 online resource (184 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cross/cultures ; 15 Description based upon print version of record. These essays are interventions in a cultural contestation in South Africa during the Seventies and Eighties. Some of them are more general in nature and were written in the first instance as public oral interventions in debates whose outcome contributed to the founding of South Africa's post-apartheid society. Other essays are more specifically aimed at poetic practices, particularly as these have been of crucial aesthetic and ultimately ethical importance in a critical phase of South Africa's painful development. Intimate knowledge of (and personal involvement in) the commitment of literature to concrete political situations informs these succinct and spirited essays, along with Horn's measured familiarity with European traditions of political, cultural and ideological thought. The topics covered include: the social context of South African poetry; poetry and apartheid; the praise-singing tradition and the liberation struggle; German documentary theatre and South African workers' theatre; the necessity of popular culture; post-Freudian readings and feminist aesthetics; censorship and society; and essays on individual South African poets (Jeremy Cronin; Wopko Jensma; Abduraghiem Johnstone; Mzwakhe Mbuli; Mongane Serote; Ari Sitas). Includes bibliographical references and index. Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Politics of the Private -- Radical and Popular Poetry -- Searching for a New Poetics -- Freeing the Word -- Bibliography. Description based on print version record. Politics and literature. South African literature History and criticism. Print version: Horn, Peter Writing My Reading Boston : BRILL,c1994 9789051837230 Cross/cultures ; 15. |
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