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Xhosa literature : spoken and printed words / Jeff Opland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Opland, Jeff, 1943- author.
- Series:
- Publications of the Opland Collection of Xhosa literature ; v. 6.
- Publications of the Opland collection of Xhosa literature ; volume 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Xhosa literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2018.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1 Oral tradition, books, newspapers; Oral tradition; 2 History as literature; 3 Two recorded poems by S.E.K. Mqhayi; 4 Izibongo as invocation; 5 The imbongi as trickster; 6 Izibongo on the cusp of change; Books; 7 The first Xhosa novel: S.E.K. Mqhayi's U-Samson (1907); 8 The publication of A.C. Jordan's novel, Ingqumbo yeminyanya (1940); 9 The earliest published poem on Nelson Mandela (1954); Newspapers; 10 Nineteenth-century Xhosa literature; 11 Fighting with the pen.
- 12 The newspaper as empowering medium: the case of Nontsizi Mgqwetho13 Abantu-Batho and the Xhosa poets; Epilogue; 14 A creative response to izibongo: The Dassie and the Hunter (2005); Bibliography; Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed July 20, 2018).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Opland, Jeff, 1943- Xhosa literature.
- ISBN:
- 9781869143879
- 1869143876
- Publisher Number:
- 99979071606
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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