Wopko Jensma: A Monograph : : The Interface between Poetry and Schizophrenia / / Ayub Sheik.

• Superior document: African Literatures in English ; 2
• VerfasserIn: Sheik, Ayub,
• Place / Publishing House: Paderborn : : Ferdinand Schöningh, Brill | Fink,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: African Literatures in English ; 2.; Schöningh and Fink Literature and Culture Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (206 pages)

Wopko Jensma's poetry constitutes an interesting and idiosyncratic response to the strife and turmoil in South Africa in the seventies. Jensma's experimental poetry harnesses the signatures of jazz lyrics, concrete poetry, the avant-garde as well as African dance forms in bizarre cameos of underclass misery and racial oppression. In lieu of metrical regularity and rhyme, the aesthetic experience is simulated by asemantic qualities of speech, sound, and rhythmic undulations in what is best described as a "withdrawal of semantic crutches". Jensma's private idiomatic language, mixing of dialects, the use of syncopation, ellipsis, and experimental topography have no doubt contributed to the cryptic and arcane aberrations associated with schizophrenia. This is the first study that explores the link between Jenma's poetry and schizophrenia and in which image, diction, and story coalesce to voice the anguish and alienation of underclass suffering.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Biography of Wopko Pieter Jensma -- Chapter 3: The Interface between Poetry and Schizophrenia -- Chapter 4: Themes in Jensma's Poetry -- 4.1 The Theme of Mutilation -- 4.2 The Theme of Confinement -- 4.3 The Theme of Consumer Culture -- 4.3.1 The Political Situation -- 4.3.2 Class Conflict -- Chapter 5: An Analysis of Wopko Jensma's Diction -- 5.1 The Use of Colloquial Expressions -- 5.2 The Use of Folkloric Expressions -- 5.3 The Use of Idioms -- 5.4 The Mixing of South African Languages -- 5.5 Tsotsi-taal -- 5.6 The Use of Afro-American Jazz Language -- 5.7 Punctuation -- 5.8 Neologisms -- 5.9 The Use of Collage -- 5.10 The Use of Imagery and Other Rhetorical Devices -- 5.11 The Use of Metaphor -- 5.12 The Use of Simile -- 5.13 The Use of Personification -- 5.14 The Use of Metonymy -- 5.15 The Use of Onomatopoeia -- 5.16 The Use of Alliteration -- 5.17 The Use of Free Verse -- 5.18 The Use of Repetition -- 5.19 The Use of Absurd Inventories -- 5.20 The Use of Humor -- 5.21 The Use of Irony -- Chapter 6: Subjectivity in the Poetry of Wopko Jensma -- 6.1 The Speaker as Autobiographical Jensma -- 6.2 The Speaker as Oppressed Poor and Black -- 6.3 The Speaker as White Oppressor -- 6.4 The Speaker as Capitalist -- 6.5 The Speaker as Schizophrenic -- Chapter 7: Intertextuality in Wopko Jensma's Poetry - References to Writers and Artists -- 7.1 The Expressionist Intertext -- 7.2 The Dadaist Intertext -- 7.3 The Surrealist Intertext -- 7.4 Concrete Poetry as Intertext -- 7.5 European Writers Intertext -- 7.6 South American Intertext -- 7.7 South African Intertext -- 7.8 The Jazz and Blues Intertext -- 7.9 African Music as Intertext -- 7.10 Hypertextuality -- Chapter 8: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Back Cover.