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Title:Traditions of Poetry in Natal
Author:Sitas, AriISNI
Year:1990
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:16
Issue:2
Period:June
Pages:307-326
Language:English
Geographic terms:South Africa
Natal
Subjects:political action
poetry
Literature, Mass Media and the Press
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637080
Abstract:The author sets the present rich array of trade union poets in Natal (South Africa) within a linked progression of resistance poetry, beginning with the work of H.I.E. Dhlomo, through Mazisi Kunene on to Mafika Pascal Gwala. He interlinks this with an analysis of the different kinds of poetry produced by the written word on the one hand and oral poetry on the other. It is in contrast to these three poets, who to varying degrees are linked to the 'scripted word' yet who each assume the role of people's poet, that the author sets trade unions poets such as J. Vilane, L. Zondi, Mi S'dumo Hlatshwayo and A. Temba Qabula, who have retrieved the oral tradition, moving it from its subterranean existence back to the public centre of cultural - and political - life. Notes, ref.
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