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Can Themba : the making and breaking of the intellectual Tsotsi : a biography /

In this rich and absorbing biography, the threads of Can Themba's dynamic life are deftly woven together, showcasing his intellectual acumen, scholarly aptitude and wit, with his flaws, contradictions and heartbreaks. The result is an authoritative and entertaining account of an often misunders...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mahala, Siphiwo (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Death and Birth of a Scribe -- 1 A Knock on the Door -- 2 The Poet Laureate of Fort Hare -- 3 The Teacher of Life and Letters -- 4 From Marabastad to Sophiatown and Beyond -- Part II: 'Live Fast and Die Young' -- 5 The Drum Seduction -- 6 Occasions for Loving -- 7 Drumming up a Storm -- 8 Destruction and Demise -- 9 The Road to Swaziland: A Kind of Suicide -- Part III: The 'Intellectual Tsotsi' 
505 8 |a 10 Black Englishman or Detribalised African? A Quest for Shared Identities -- 11 A Politico in a Poet -- 12 The People's Intellectual -- Part IV: Dances with Texts: Writing and Storytelling -- 13 No Ordinary Storyteller -- 14 Intertextuality and the Making of Mr Shakespeare -- 15 The Suit for All Seasons -- Part V: A Writer's Immortality -- 16 Re-Membering the Fragments -- Postscript: The Three Burials of Can Themba -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover 
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