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Zulu Poems
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Author : Mazisi Kunene
language : en
Publisher: Africana Pub.
Release Date : 1970
Zulu Poems written by Mazisi Kunene and has been published by Africana Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Poetry categories.
Mazisi Kunene
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Author : Dike Okoro
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-12-14
Mazisi Kunene written by Dike Okoro and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence. Kunene is widely recognized for his epic poems that assert cultural identity and condemn the disruption of the growth and development of African culture through colonialism/postcolonialism. This book explores how ‘oraliterature’ and cultural traditions informed Kunene’s poetry, how Kunene’s poetry highlights African women and mothers, and how activism, mythology and transnational identities are depicted in his verse to promote cultural and generational continuities from Africa to the Diasporic Africans. Drawing on a range of interviews and comparative studies, the book situates Kunene’s work in a wider conversation about South African social struggles. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of one of the giants of African literary history. As such, it will be of interest to researchers across African literary and postcolonial studies.
New Perspectives On Mazisi Kunene
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Author : Okoro, Dike
language : en
Publisher: Cissus World Press
Release Date : 2016-07-25
New Perspectives On Mazisi Kunene written by Okoro, Dike and has been published by Cissus World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
New Perspectives on Mazisi Kunene shares with readers an interview inspired by correspondence and prolonged conversations on the telephone. The focus of this interview, Mazisi Kunene, is arguably one of Africa's greatest poets. Kunene's contributions to African literature as both scholar and artist remains significant, given his commitment to writing in his indigenous Zulu language and translating his corpus into English. Ntongela Masilela, a close friend to Kunene and scholar who has written extensively on Kunene oeuvre, shares views that center primarily on Kunene's importance in African literature, and his role and place in South African literary and cultural revolution.
The Ancestors The Sacred Mountain
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Author : Mazisi Kunene
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Release Date : 1982
The Ancestors The Sacred Mountain written by Mazisi Kunene and has been published by Heinemann Educational Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Literary Criticism categories.
Emperor Shaka The Great
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Author : Mazisi Kunene
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Release Date : 1979
Emperor Shaka The Great written by Mazisi Kunene and has been published by Heinemann Educational Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Emperor Shaka the Great is an epic poem based on the Zulu oral tradition, compiled in Zulu then translated by South African Poet Mazisi Kunene. The epic follows the life of Shaka Zulu. The poem documents his exploits as a king of the Zulu people, produced considerable advances in State structure and military technologies of the Zulu. Some critics express concern over the historicity of the retelling. However, Kunene's embrasure of an African perspective on Shaka's Rule expresses an attempt at understanding the apparent horrors observed by Europeans in the Shaka's history.
Echoes From The Mountain
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Author : Mazisi Kunene
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Echoes From The Mountain written by Mazisi Kunene and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Poetry categories.
Echoes from the Mountain. New and Selected Poems by Mazisi Kunene
Two Zulu Poets Mazisi Kunene And Bw Vilakazi
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Author : Okoro, Dike
language : en
Publisher: Cissus World Press
Release Date : 2016-06-14
Two Zulu Poets Mazisi Kunene And Bw Vilakazi written by Okoro, Dike and has been published by Cissus World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-14 with Poetry categories.
In Two Zulu Poets, Dike Okoro brings to our attention the sparkling wealth of African poetry in indigenous languages. Modern African poets and scholars owe so much to the pioneering efforts of these two South African poets. Dr. Okoro has surely, in this bilingual edition of two Zulu poets, unearthed invaluable gems of poetry. Tanure Ojaide, Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte “Mazisi Kunene is simply one of Africa greatest poets.” N'gugi wa Thiong'o, University of California Irvine, CA, USA “There is a direct line of continuity between Benedict Wallet Vilakazi and Mazisi Kunene concerning the fundamental issue that African literature should be written in the African languages by New African intellectuals”, The Historical Figures of the New African Movement". Ntongela Masilela, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Creative Studies
Anthem Of The Decades
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Author : Mazisi Kunene
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Release Date : 1981
Anthem Of The Decades written by Mazisi Kunene and has been published by Heinemann Educational Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Epic Poetry Of Mazisi Kunene
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Author : Dike Okoro
language : en
Publisher: Black Literary and Cultural Ex
Release Date : 2023-10-05
The Epic Poetry Of Mazisi Kunene written by Dike Okoro and has been published by Black Literary and Cultural Ex this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
As Africa's foremost epic poet, Mazisi Kunene occupies a unique place in history. In this study, Dike Okoro illuminates the penetrating insights found in Kunene's poetry and the reasons why his art has been considered as masterpieces grounded in geography, history, and culture. He situates Kunene as a theorist who embraces African tradition – including his adoption of izibongo, Zulu praise poetry – and the role of the artist as a chronicler of his people's history, committed to art as a catalyst for change, not only in South Africa but for Africans around the globe. These essays and interviews address the post-apartheid reality of South Africa and draw from a repository of rich images found in Kunene's poetry to provide examples of the poet's depiction of colonial exploitation in Africa, the rootedness of traditional African culture, women and children who bring hope, and art as a way to effect change. The author demonstrates Kunene's profound influence on and in world literature, interrogating his work for its style, resistance to oppression, and connections with poetry by Native Americans and other Indigenous literary traditions. Finally, Okoro argues that Mazisi Kunene's poetry centers non-human beings (animals and plants), the pristine environment of the olden days, and the cosmology of his Zulu ethnicity, asserting the relevance of his art, in this 21st-century moment of climate crisis, as both a form of activism and a political tool to the African creative writer.
Emperor Shaka The Great
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Author : Mazisi Kunene
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Emperor Shaka The Great written by Mazisi Kunene and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
Mazisi Kunene is the much-celebrated author of epics, such as Emperor Shaka the Great (UNodumehlezi KaMenzi) and Anthem of the Decades (Inhlokomo Yeminyaka), as well as numerous poems, short stories, nursery rhymes and proverbs that amount to a collection of more than 10 000 works. He was born in aMahlongwa in 1930, a small rural village on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. As a young man born into Zulu tradition, his calling as an imbongi was taken very seriously by his father and grandfather who encouraged him to write. Professor Kunene described this 'calling' to write as 'something [that] is not me, it is the power that rides me like a horse.' Kunene was Professor in African Literature at Stanford University and in African Literature and Languages at the University of California, Los Angeles. On his return to South Africa, he was Professor in African Languages at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He went into exile in the 1960s for more than 34 years, during which time he established and managed the African National Congress office in London, and later moved to Los Angeles with his family to pursue his academic career. In his epic poem Emperor Shaka the Great (UNodumehlezi KaMenzi), which he wrote during this exile period, he positions Shaka as a legendary thinker, who had great skill as a strategic and military genius. This vision acknowledges and re-imagines Shaka as a unifying cultural and political force that defined the cohesive Zulu nation. Kunene projects Shaka into the mythical ancestral universe that affirms the deep cultural lineage of the African world view. This reprinted English edition is published, along with the isiZulu edition, UNodumehlezi KaMenzi, on the tenth anniversary of his death, embracing Kunene's original dream to have his poem published as intended in the original isiZulu form. The symbolic and cultural significance of these publications begins a process of re-evaluating and recontextualising Kunene's writing oeuvre. [Subject: Poetry, Fiction, African Studies]