20th Century
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Author_Adam Schwartzman
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Product details
- ISBN 9781857543933
- Weight: 332g
- Dimensions: 136 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 26 Aug 1999
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Adam Schwartzman's anthology offers substantial selections of ten outstanding South African poets drawn from more than four decades and from very different traditions and cultures. Far from establishing a canon, the vital and diverse literatures represented here offer a pluralistic vision of Africanism. While politics loom large, the poetries of place, region, country and survival assemble an imaginative vocabulary through which the volatility of South Africa's history emerges.
The editor's introduction examines the radically altered circumstances of the contemporary poet in South Africa and reflects on the cultural and social struggles which have brought and will bring new resources into the poetry of Africa and the English language.
The editor's introduction examines the radically altered circumstances of the contemporary poet in South Africa and reflects on the cultural and social struggles which have brought and will bring new resources into the poetry of Africa and the English language.
Adam Schwartzman was born in Johannesburg in 1973. At present he is an associate at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town and works in rural development. Carcanet publish his first two collections of poetry The Good Life, The Dirty Life and other stories (1995) and Merrie Afrika! (1997).
