Es Kia

Author : Es'kia Mphahlele
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101616796

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Down Second Avenue by Es'kia Mphahlele Pdf

Es’kia Mphahlele’s seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa—available for the first time in Penguin Classics Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es’kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African writing. Down Second Avenue is a landmark book that describes Mphahlele’s experience growing up in segregated South Africa. Vivid, graceful, and unapologetic, it details a daily life of severe poverty and brutal police surveillance under the subjugation of an apartheid regime. Banned in South Africa after its original 1959 publication for its protest against apartheid, Down Second Avenue is a foundational work of literature that continues to inspire activists today. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Indigenous peoples
ISBN : OCLC:612742609

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Down Second Avenue by Anonim Pdf

Author : Es'kia Mphahlele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015058785604

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Es'kia by Es'kia Mphahlele Pdf

The essays and public addresses of scholar, teacher, philosopher, and activist Es'kia Mphahlele are presented in this collection spanning 40 years of recent African history. The intellectual and distinctly South African perspective exhibited in these writings is enriched by humor and autobiographical anecdotes. Subjects addressed include African literature and literary criticism, education in a democratic South Africa, relations between Africans and African Americans, negritude, African identity, and African humanism. A critical introduction, full biography, bibliography, and brief synopsis of each essay are included.

Author : Peter D. McDonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192538376

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Artefacts of Writing by Peter D. McDonald Pdf

Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics. In Artefacts of Writing, Peter D. McDonald argues they pose as much of a challenge to the way states conceptualise language, culture, and community. Drawing on a wealth of evidence, from Victorian scholarly disputes over the identity of the English language to the constitutional debates about its future in Ireland, India, and South Africa, and from the quarrels over the idea of culture within the League of Nations in the interwar years to UNESCO's ongoing struggle to articulate a viable concept of diversity, McDonald brings together a large ensemble of legacy writers, including T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Rabindranath Tagore, putting them in dialogue with each other and with the policy-makers who shaped the formation of modern states and the history of internationalist thought from the 1860s to the 1940s. In the second part of the book, he reflects on the continuing evolution of these dialogues, showing how a varied array of more contemporary writers from Amit Chaudhuri, J. M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie to Antjie Krog, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, and Es'kia Mphahlele cast new light on a range of questions concerning education, literacy, human rights, translation, indigenous knowledge, and cultural diversity that have preoccupied UNESCO since 1945. At once a novel contribution to institutional and intellectual history and an innovative exercise in literary and philosophical analysis, Artefacts of Writing affords a unique perspective on literature's place at the centre of some of the most fraught, often lethal public controversies that defined the long-twentieth century and that continue to haunt us today

Author : Ruth Obee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:49015002694637

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Es'kia Mphahlele by Ruth Obee Pdf

An overview of the work of the black African writer, Ezekiel Mphahlele, presented against a backdrop of alienation and humanism to show his importance in the shaping of a black nationalist vision in South Africa.

Author : Es'kia Mphahlele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127480361

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Es'kia Continued by Es'kia Mphahlele Pdf

Author : Ruth Obee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015046012871

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Es'kia Mphahlele by Ruth Obee Pdf

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature and received the Ordre des Palmes from the French government in 1984 for his contribution to French language and culture.

Author : Ezekiel Mphahlele
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014207231

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The African Image. -- by Ezekiel Mphahlele Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Es'kia Mphahlele
Publisher : Columbia, La., USA : Readers International
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015028784901

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Renewal Time by Es'kia Mphahlele Pdf

Eight stories and two autobiographical essays written upon the author's return to South Africa after 20 years of exile. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex.

Author : Miriam E. Conteh-Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313068997

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The Undergraduate's Companion to African Writers and Their Web Sites by Miriam E. Conteh-Morgan Pdf

Now a firmly established part of world literature course offerings in many general education curricula, African literature is no longer housed exclusively with African Studies programs, and is often studied in English, French, Portuguese, Women's Studies, and Comparative Studies departments. This book helps fill the great need for research materials on this topic, presenting the best resources available for 300 African writers. These writers have been carefully selected to include both well-known writers and those less commonly studied yet highly influential. They are drawn from both the Sub-Sahara and the Maghreb, the major geographical regions of Africa. The study of Africa was introduced into the curriculum of institutions of higher learning in the United States in the 1960s, when the Black Consciousness movement in the United States and the Cold War and decolonization movements in Africa created a need for the systematic study of other regions of the world. Between 1986 and 1991, three Africans won Nobel literature prizes: Soyinka, Mahfouz, and Gordimer, and the visibility of African writers increased. They are now a firmly established part of world literature courses in many general education curricula throughout North America. African Writers is meant to serve as a resource for introductory material on 300 writers from 39 countries. These writers were selected on the basis on two criteria: that there is material on them in an easily available reference work; and that there is some information of research value on free Web sites. Each writer is from the late-19th or 20th century, with the notable exception of Olaudah Equiano, an 18th-century African whose slave narrative is generally considered the first work of African literature. All entries are annotated.

Author : Peter Westoby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317010982

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Theorising the Practice of Community Development by Peter Westoby Pdf

Based on 25 years of community development practice, six of which have been lived in South Africa, Peter Westoby’s ground-breaking monograph moves away from dominant normative accounts of community development to provide an appreciative and critical analysis of concrete examples of community development theory and practice. By examining community development stories as experienced on the ground, Westoby is able to show how the poor are organising themselves using various forms of community development as well as demonstrating how the state and non-state actors are attempting to organise, engage or accompany the poor through community development. The book also breaks new ground in theorising the practice of community development, drawing inductively from the stories analysed. The diversity of South African contexts and the proliferation of different kinds of community practice, make this a hugely difficult task. Despite this, Westoby argues it is one worth undertaking given the seriousness of the challenges facing the poor and progressive social change agents within South Africa. In this undertaking, Westoby draws upon a unique analytical framework to help illuminate current community development policy and programme challenges, along with practice dilemmas and wisdom.

Author : Bhekizizwe Peterson,Makhosazana Xaba,Khwezi Mkhize,Jill Bradbury,Hugo Canham,Victoria J Collis-Buthelezi,Simon Gikandi,Anne-Maria Makhulu,Athambile Masola,Innocentia J Mhlambi,Sikhumbuzo Mngadi,Thando Njovane,Obi Nwakanma,James Ogude,Christopher EW Ouma,Stéphane Robolin,Crain Soudien,Tina Steiner,Thuto Thipe,Andrea Thorpe
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781776147519

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Foundational African Writers by Bhekizizwe Peterson,Makhosazana Xaba,Khwezi Mkhize,Jill Bradbury,Hugo Canham,Victoria J Collis-Buthelezi,Simon Gikandi,Anne-Maria Makhulu,Athambile Masola,Innocentia J Mhlambi,Sikhumbuzo Mngadi,Thando Njovane,Obi Nwakanma,James Ogude,Christopher EW Ouma,Stéphane Robolin,Crain Soudien,Tina Steiner,Thuto Thipe,Andrea Thorpe Pdf

The essays in this collection were written in celebration of the centenaries, in 2019, of Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Cyril Lincoln Nyembezi and Es'kia Mphahlele, all of whom were born in 1919. All four centenarians lived rich and diverse lives across several continents. In the years following the Second World War they produced more than half a century of foundational creative writing and literary criticism, and made stellar contributions to the founding and enhancement of institutions and repertoires of African and black arts and letters in South Africa and internationally. As a result, their lifeworlds and oeuvres present sharp and multifaceted engagements with and generative insights into a wide range of issues, including precolonial existence, colonialism, empire, race, culture, identity, class, the language question, tradition, modernity, exile, Pan-Africanism, and decolonisation.

Author : Meg Samuelson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000439670

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Claiming the City in South African Literature by Meg Samuelson Pdf

This book demonstrates the insights that literature brings to transdisciplinary urban studies, and particularly to the study of cities of the South. Starting from the claim staked by mining capital in the late nineteenth century and its production of extractive and segregated cities, it surveys over a century of writing in search of counterclaims through which the literature reimagines the city as a place of assembly and attachment. Focusing on how the South African city has been designed to funnel gold into the global economy and to service an enclaved minority, the study looks to the literary city to advance a contrary emphasis on community, conviviality and care. An accessible and informative introduction to literature of the South African city at significant historical junctures, this book will also be of great interest to scholars and students in urban studies and Global South studies.

Author : Judith Lutge Coullie,Stephan Meyer,Thengani H. Ngwenya,Thomas Olver
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780824843502

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Selves in Question by Judith Lutge Coullie,Stephan Meyer,Thengani H. Ngwenya,Thomas Olver Pdf

Wide-ranging and engaging, Selves in Question considers the various ways in which auto/biographical accounts situate and question the self in contemporary southern Africa.The twenty-seven interviews presented here consider both the ontological status and the representation of the self. They remind us that the self is constantly under construction in webs of interlocution and that its status and representation are always in question. The contributors, therefore, look at ways in which auto/biographical practices contribute to placing, understanding, and troubling the self and selves in postcolonies in the current global constellation. They examine topics such as the contexts conducive to production processes; the contents and forms of auto/biographical accounts; and finally, their impact on the producers and the audience. In doing so they map out a multitude of variables--including the specific historical juncture, geo-political locations, social positions, cultures, languages, generations, and genders--in their relations to auto/biographical practices. Those interviewed include the famous and the hardly known, women and men, writers and performers who communicate in a variety of languages: Afrikaans, English, Xhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho, and Yiddish. An extensive introduction offers a general framework on the contestation of self through auto/biography, a historical overview of auto/biographical representation in South Africa up to the present time, an outline of theoretical and thematic issues at stake in southern Africa auto/biography, and extensive primary and secondary biographies. Interviewees: Breyten Breytenbach, Dennis Brutus, Valentine Cascarino, Vanitha Chetty, Wilfred Cibane, Greig Coetzee, J. M. Coetzee, Paul Faber, David Goldblatt, Stephen Gray, Dorian Haarhoff, Rayda Jacobs, Elsa Joubert, K. Limakatso Kendall, Ester Lee, Doris Lessing, Sindiwe Magona, Margaret McCord, N. Chabani Manganyi, Zolani Mkiva, Jonathan Morgan, Es’kia Mphahlele, Rob Nixon, Mpho Nthunya, Robert Scott, Gillian Slovo, Alex J. Thembela, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Johan van Wyk, Wilhelm Verwoerd, David Wolpe, D. L. P.Yali Manisi.

Author : Jürgen Klein,Vanderbeke Dirk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111714141

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Proceedings / Anglistentag 1995 Greifswald by Jürgen Klein,Vanderbeke Dirk Pdf