First Meeting with Manisi
| Autor: | Jeff Opland |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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| Zdroj: | Research in African Literatures. 35:26-45 |
| ISSN: | 1527-2044 0034-5210 |
| DOI: | 10.2979/ral.2004.35.3.26 |
| Popis: | In 2002, Research in African Literatures carried an article on the early career of the Thembu imbongi (praise poet) D. L. P. Yali-Manisi (1926–99). The article was drawn from the introduction and chapter one of an account of my 29-year association with the poet, to be published by the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press under the title The Dassie and the Hunter: A South African Meeting. In the second chapter of the book, I depart from an academic mode of discourse and deploy the strategies of a short story, a stylistic shift towards a more creative response to Manisi’s poetry. I identify myself here through Western European poetry that enters into dialogue with his vibrant Xhosa oral poetry just as, in the succeeding course of our relationship, I enter into dialogue with Manisi. The implication of the chapter is that as a young white doctoral candidate from the city, I am initially poles apart from Manisi’s rural world; at the end of the chapter, I return to apartheid South Africa, very pleased with myself, but irretrievably involved for the rest of my life in his urgent poetry. I explain the title of the book in my introduction |
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