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Title: | Traditions of Poetry in Natal |
Author: | Sitas, Ari |
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. |