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Xhosa literature : spoken and printed words /
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Pietermaritzburg, South Africa :
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Publications of the Opland Collection of Xhosa literature ;
v. 6. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1 Oral tradition, books, newspapers; Oral tradition; 2 History as literature; 3 Two recorded poems by S.E.K. Mqhayi; 4 Izibongo as invocation; 5 The imbongi as trickster; 6 Izibongo on the cusp of change; Books; 7 The first Xhosa novel: S.E.K. Mqhayi's U-Samson (1907); 8 The publication of A.C. Jordan's novel, Ingqumbo yeminyanya (1940); 9 The earliest published poem on Nelson Mandela (1954); Newspapers; 10 Nineteenth-century Xhosa literature; 11 Fighting with the pen.
- 12 The newspaper as empowering medium: the case of Nontsizi Mgqwetho13 Abantu-Batho and the Xhosa poets; Epilogue; 14 A creative response to izibongo: The Dassie and the Hunter (2005); Bibliography; Index.