The Epic Poetry of Mazisi Kunene
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-5013-9889-6 (ISBN)
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As Africa’s foremost epic poet, Mazisi Kunene occupies a unique place in history. In this study, Dike Okoro illuminates the penetrating insights found in Kunene's poetry and the reasons why his art has been considered as masterpieces grounded in geography, history, and culture. He situates Kunene as a theorist who embraces African tradition – including his adoption of izibongo, Zulu praise poetry – and the role of the artist as a chronicler of his people’s history, committed to art as a catalyst for change, not justd South Africa but for Africans around the globe.
These essays and interviews address the post-apartheid reality of South Africa and draw from a repository of rich images found in Kunene's poetry to provide examples of depictions of colonial exploitation in Africa; the rootedness of traditional African culture; women and children who bring hope; and art as a way to effect change. They demonstrate Kunene’s profound influence on and in world literature, interrogating his work for its style and connections with poetry by Native Americans and other Indigenous literary traditions.
The Epic Poetry of Mazisi Kunene argues that Mazisi Kunene's poetry centers non-human beings (animals and plants), the pristine environment of the olden days, and the cosmology of his Zulu ethnicity, asserting the relevance of his art – in this 21st-century moment of climate crisis – as both a form of activism and a political tool to the African creative writer.
Dike Okoro is Associate Professor of English at Harris Stowe State University, USA, and author of Futurism and the African Imagination (2021) and Lupenga Mphande: Ecocritical Poet/Political Activist (2020). He is Senior Research Fellow at Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundation, Nigeria, and Scholar-in-Residence at the Newberry, USA.
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Wise sayings/advice as advocacy/life lessons in Mazisi Kunene’s poetry
Chapter 2: Water, Life, Death and Traveling Symbols in the poetry of Mazisi Kunene, Gabriel Okara, and Langston Hughes
Chapter 3: The Motif of Exile in the Poetry of Mazisi Kunene and Kofi Awoonor
Chapter 4: The Depiction of Women in Mazisi Kunene’s selected poems
Chapter 5: Leadership/Misuse of power in Kunene’s poems
Chapter 6: Forms of Resistance and Protest in Kunene’s poetry
Chapter 7: Images of Heroes and Heroines in Kunene’s work
Chapter 8: Song/Ecstasy Music in Mazisi Kunene’s poetry
Chapter 9: Candidly Speaking: Mazisi Kunene and Elechi Amadi
Chapter 10:Water Imagery in Mazisi Kunene’s poetry
Notes I: A Conversation between Ntongela Masilela and Dike Okoro
Notes II: Mazisi Kunene in conversation with Dike Okoro
Afterword
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Black Literary and Cultural Expressions |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-9889-X / 150139889X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-9889-6 / 9781501398896 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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