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Xhosa Poets and Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Jeff Opland
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: New Africa Books

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Xhosa oral poetry has defied the threats to its integrity over two centuries, to take its place in a free South Africa. This volume establishes the background t
Xhosa Literature
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jeff Opland
Categories: Xhosa literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press

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Xhosa Literature consists of fourteen essays addressing Xhosa literature in three media-the spoken word, newspapers, and books. Literary critics tend to focus o
Xhosa Oral Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Jeff Opland
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983-12-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of the Xhosa oral poetry tradition.
Of Land, Bones, and Money
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Emily McGiffin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:

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The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for
Skinned
Language: en
Pages: 177
Authors: Antjie Krog
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-07 - Publisher: Seven Stories Press

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One of South Africa’s greatest living poets selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems and the themes that best represent her from across her