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By Christopher Heywood
ISBN-10: 0521153786
ISBN-13: 9780521153782
Christopher Heywood surveys consultant South African poems, performs and prose works in 5 literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. Heywood's choices contain over a hundred authors and chosen works--covering poetry, theater and prose. Explored within the context of crises resulting in the formation of recent South Africa, South African literature emerges from this examine as one of many nice literatures of the trendy international.
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Another major historical event was the Afrikaners’ migration by wagon to the northern grasslands of Natal, the Free State, and Gauteng (Transvaal) by Afrikaner families in the Trek (Great Trek), between 1835 and 1838. Mistrust of the British military style of colonial government, resentment against taxation that achieved no visible results, economic hardship, and the search for new grazing lands were among the precipitating causes of this extensive migration. Revision of this view began to appear in the mid-twentieth century from Afrikaner writers with a sense of the violent past, notably in Introduction 23 Edward Roux’s Time Longer than Rope (1948), P.
And I long to be back in my world, to be talking to my fellow men’ (Bleek, p. 300). Longing for his people and their stories, and sensing their presence in his exile, Kabbo relates: I sit silent. I must wait listening behind men, while I listen along the road, while I feel that my name floats along the road; they (my three names) float along to my place; I will go to sit at it; that I may listening turn backwards with my ears to my feet’s heels, on which I went; while I feel that a story is the wind .
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