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Xhosa literature --- History and criticism. --- Xosa literature --- South African literature --- History and criticism
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Xhosa literature --- Xosa literature --- South African literature --- History and criticism. --- Xhosa literature. --- 18.92 languages of sub-Saharan Africa.
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For nearly a decade Nontsizi Mgqwetho contributed poetry to a Johannesburg newspaper, Umteteli wa Bantu, the first and only female poet to produce a substantial body of work in isiXhosa. Apart from what is revealed in these writings, very little is known about her life. She explodes on the scene with her swaggering, urgent, confrontational woman's poetry on 23 October 1920, sends poems to the newspaper regularly throughout the three years from 1924 to 1926, withdraws for two years until two final poems appear in December 1928 and January 1929, then disappears into the shrouding silence she first burst from. Nothing more is heard from her, but the poetry she left immediately claims for her the status of one of the greatest literary artists ever to write in isiXhosa, an anguished voice of an urban woman confronting male dominance, ineffective leadership, black apathy, white malice and indifference, economic exploitation and a tragic history of nineteenth-century territorial and cultural dispossession. The Nation's Bounty contains the original poems alongside English translations by Jeff Opland. It was the first of a number of new titles planned for release in the African Treasury Series, a premier collection of texts by South Africa's pioneers of African literature and written in indigenous languages. First published by Wits University Press in the 1940s, the series provided a voice for the voiceless and celebrated African culture, history and heritage. It continues to make a contribution by supporting current efforts to empower and develop the status of African languages in South Africa.
Xhosa poetry. --- Xhosa poetry --- Xhosa literature. --- Xosa literature --- South African literature --- Xhosa literature --- Poetry (Poetic Works By One Author) --- Poetry
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This book assembles and translates into English all of William Wellington Gqoba's clearly identifiable writings. They offer an insider's perspective on an African nation in transition, adapting uncomfortably to Western mores and morality, seeking to affirm its identity by drawing on its past, standing on the brink of mobilisation to resist white control and to construct its social, political and religious independence of European colonialism--
Intellectuals --- Xhosa literature --- Xhosa poetry. --- Xhosa literature. --- Xhosa (African people) --- Amaxosa (African people) --- Kāpiri (African people) --- Koosa (African people) --- Xosa --- Xosa (African people) --- Ethnology --- Nguni (African people) --- Xosa literature --- South African literature --- Intelligentsia --- Persons --- Social classes --- Specialists --- History. --- Social life and customs. --- Intellectuals. --- Xhosa (African people). --- Xhosa poetry --- Gqoba, William Wellington --- Southern Africa.
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