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The "new South African" democratic era was characterised by what literary critic Stephane Serge Ibinga in her article "Post-Apartheid Literature Beyond Race" [10] describes as "honeymoon literature" or "the literature of celebration", epitomised by Zakes Mda, who was active as a playwright and poet long before publishing his first novel in 1995.
This is a list of noted South African poets, poets born or raised in South Africa, whether living there or overseas, and writing in one of the South African languages This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Poets by languages of South Africa (3 C) Pages in category "South African poetry" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
When praising a chief, his poetry includes references to the praise names of the chief and the chief's ancestors. In this way the imbongi seeks to garner favor from royal ancestors for the prosperity of his nation. [1] During the mining era in South Africa, a now discarded type of imbongi emerged. Unlike 'home' iimbongi, the mine imbongi had no ...
Part of the problem is that English literature has been seen within the greater context of English writing in the world, and has, because of English's global position as ', not been seen as autonomous or indigenous to South Africa – in Olivier’s words: "English literature in South Africa continues to be a sort of extension of British or ...
Research in the AWS archive at Reading University reveals that this was a projected anthology of Central and Southern African poetry, which was instead published as When My Brothers Come Home: Poems from Central and Southern Africa, edited by Frank M. Chipasula (Middleton, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1985)." [20] 260: NEVER PUBLISHED
Mark Behr (born 1963), South Africa/Tanzania; Dricky Beukes (1918–1999) Lauren Beukes (born 1976) Steve Biko (1946–1977) Troy Blacklaws (born 1965) François Bloemhof (born 1962) Elleke Boehmer (born 1961) Dugmore Boetie (c.1924–1966) Stella Blakemore (1906–1991) William Bolitho (1891–1930) Diphete Bopape (born 1957) Herman Charles ...
Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823), English laboring-class poet; Roy Blumenthal (born 1968), South African poet; Edmund Blunden (1896–1974), English poet, author and literary critic; Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), English poet and writer; Robert Bly (1926–2021), US poet, author and leader of mythopoetic men's movement