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Poetry & protest : a Dennis Brutus reader / edited by Lee Sustar & Aisha Karim.
Van Pelt Library PR9390.93.B7 Z82 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brutus, Dennis, 1924-2009.
- Brutus, Dennis.
- Poets, South African--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, South African.
- Protest poetry, South African (English).
- Protest poetry, South African (English)--History and criticism.
- Apartheid in literature.
- South Africa--In literature.
- South Africa.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 414 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Poetry and protest
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2006.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Dennis Brutus's "ticking explosives" Aisha Karim and Lee Sustar 11
- Part 1 Early Years: Radicalization and Rebellion
- Memoir: From Protest to Prison 23
- Documents 45
- Letter from Balthazaar Johannes Vorster, minister of justice
- Silent poets, strangled writers
- Negritude, literature, and nationalism: A word from South Africa
- In a Cape packing shed
- Sports: Threat to the security of the state
- Walking home to Mofolo
- "You've come to Hell Island": A political prisoner under apartheid
- Part 2 From Exile to International Activist
- Section 1 Racism, Sports, and Resistance
- Memoir: Isolating Apartheid-South Africa and International Sports 129
- "Certain countries are determined to protect South Africa"
- Open letter from the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee
- Section 2 Poetry, Culture and Liberation
- Memoir: The Artist as Political Activist 153
- Documents 167
- Somehow tenderness survives
- Protest against apartheid: Alan Paton, Nadine Gordimer, Athol Fugard, Alfred Hutchinson, and Arthur Nortje
- African culture and liberation
- Cultural liberation and the African revolution
- Literature and commitment in South Africa
- Meeting of African writers
- English and the dynamics of South African creative writing
- Section 3 Apartheid's Last Stand
- Memoir: Fighting Deportation from the United States 220
- Documents 222
- Letters
- Speech before the United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid
- Notes on the South African liberation struggle
- Steve Biko: In memoriam
- Statement by Ad-Hoc Group to End Northwestern Investments in South Africa
- The escalation of resistance in South Africa
- Part 3 From National Liberation to Global Justice
- Memoir: Apartheid, Neoliberalism, Resistance 285
- South Africa: Transition to freedom?
- Martin Luther King Day: Globalize the struggle for justice
- Africa 2000 in the new global context: A commentary
- Why I protested at the World Bank
- It's time for new confrontations
- Africa's progressive movements
- South Africa supports global apartheid
- World Conference Against Racism: South Africa between a rock and a hard place
- Reflections on Durban
- World Summit on Sustainable Development
- Global agendas are set by the usual suspects
- Africa's struggles today
- Statement on the Palestinian campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel
- Africa: Can Blair and Brown deliver?
- Imperialism, sub-imperialism, and popular resistance in South Africa.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-404) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1931859221
- OCLC:
- 62421208
- Publisher Number:
- 9781931859226
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