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Somehow we survive : an anthology of South African writing / edited by Sterling Plumpp ; illustrations by Dumile Feni.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South African literature (English).
- Black people--South Africa--Literary collections.
- Black people.
- Race relations.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--Race relations--Literary collections.
- South African literature (English)--20th century.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, [1982]
- Contents:
- The story of my day. Prelude / Mongane Serote
- Saviour / Zindzi Mandela
- Dead roots / Arthur Nortje
- Letter to Ipeleng on her birthday 1976 / Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Waiting ; Midnight / Arthur Nortje
- Sequence for South Africa / Dennis Brutus
- Drink from my empty cup / Zindzi Mandela
- Night of terror / Willie Adams
- My sister / Keorapetse Kgositsile
- The blues is you in me / Sidney Sepamla
- Carnival at New Years / Julian deWette
- Staffrider / Matime Papane
- Note to Khatija / Essop Patel
- Pimville Station / Sidney Sepamla.
- Leave me alone. I share the pain of my black brother / James Matthews
- Heaven is not closed / Bessie Head
- Native letter / Arthur Nortje
- Speak to me of mushrooms / Dennis Brutus
- Chimid : a memorial / Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Awakening / Amelia House
- Creator / Julian deWette
- Christmas 1976 ; Uthekwane ; Demon exile ; Where are they now / Barbara J. Masekela.
- What words? Foreign body / Arthur Nortje
- To whom it may concern / Sidney Sepamla
- A poem / Mongane Serote
- Sharpeville ; At a funeral / Dennis Brutus
- Another Alexandra / Mongane Serote
- ERA / Jaki Seroke
- I waited for you last night / Zindzi Mandela
- Dimbaza / Austin Cloete
- The echoes are breaking / James Matthews
- Requiem for my mother / Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Untitled / Barbara J. Masekela.
- New age. New age / Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Austin Moving along ballad / Dikeni Bayi
- Phantoms / Barbara J. Masekela.
- All hungers pass away. Somehow we survive / Dennis Brutus
- A piano toccata by Baldassare Galuppi / Dennis Brutus
- It is night / James Matthews
- All hungers pass away / Arthur Nortje
- Seaprankoe / Keorapetse Kgositsile.
- Straight ahead. For my unborn child / Baleka Kgositsile
- Isandlhawana incarnate / Bheki Langa
- In the black gut / Mongane Serote
- In memoriam / Pascal Gwala
- Poem / Christine Douts
- Only to you / Ilva MacKay.
- A prayer for Africa. Song (we sing) / Cosmo Pieterse
- A journey / Mongane Serote
- The sounds begin again / Dennis Brutus
- A prayer for Africa from the mouths of babies / Mandlenkosi Langa.
- Oxford journal. Introduction / David Bunn
- Exploration ; Brief thunder at Sharpeville ; Late spring ; Reflections ; Poem in absence ; Courtnay rocks / Arthur Nortje.
- Long road. No more strangers / Mongane Serote
- Guerrilla / Cosmo Pieterse
- The long road : the tunnel / Victor Matlou
- June 16 year of the spear / Keorapetse Kgositsile
- Hanged / Dennis Brutus
- A luta continua / Keorapetse Kgositsile.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Somehow we survive.
- ISBN:
- 0938410024 :
- 9780938410027
- 0938410016
- 9780938410010
- OCLC:
- 8114629
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