Previous page | New search |
The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here
Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Light on shades: complex constructions of identity in the poetry of Chris Mann |
Author: | Brown, Molly |
Year: | 2011 |
Periodical: | The English Academy Review (ISSN 1753-5360) |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 64-72 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | poetry English language Zulu identity |
About person: | Chris Zithulele Mann (1948-2021) |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10131752.2011.574004 |
Abstract: | Chris Mann openly acknowledges the importance for his writing of the Zulu concept of the shades. This article examines his use of this key aspect of Zulu spirituality and argues that its presence in his poetry allows him to affirm a consciously-created African identity. By doing this, it suggests that Mann both subverts the rigidly physical categorizations of racial politics and creates a third space in which he places himself at once between and beside 'the assumed 'polarities' of conflict' (Homi K. Bhabha, 1999, interview with Christian Hoeller). Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |