Writing Namibia: Literature in Transition
- Published:
- 1st May 2018
- Publisher:
- University of Namibia Press
- ISBN:
- 9789991642345
- Dimensions:
- Formats:
- Paperback / softback (9789991642338)Digital download (9789991642345)
A cornucopia of extraordinary and fascinating material which will entrance readers and be a rich resource for students and teachers. The text is wide ranging, defining literature in its broadest terms. The book, in its multifaceted approach, covers many genres traditionally outside academic literary discourse and debate, as well as issues of culture, history, politics and sociology. In a blend of styles, both Namibian and international scholars, writers and poets explore inter-linking themes, such as publishing in local languages, the development of applied theatre, cultural and gender stereotypes, violence, and post-colonial ideas regarding indigenous creative processes. The book is testimonial to the Namibian wellspring of talent, material, ideas and inspiration.
Acknowledgements
Foreword - Andrédu Pisani
Introduction:Setting the Context - Sarala Krishnamurthy and Helen Vale
Chapter 1 TheShifting Grounds of Emancipation: From the Anti-Colonial Struggle to a Critiqueof Post-Colonial Society - Henning Melber
Chapter 2Gathering Scattered Archives - Margie Orford
Chapter 3Conceptualising National Transition: Namibian Women’s Autobiographies about theLiberation Struggle - Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua
Chapter 4Emplotting Nationalism: Comparing Sam Nujoma’s Where Others Wavered and JosephDiescho’s Born of the Sun - Patrick Colm Hogan
Chapter 5 TheForgotten Child of Namibia: An Analysis of Misheke Matongo’s Autobiography -Jason Owens and Sarala Krishnamurthy
Chapter 6Otjiherero Literature in Transition from the Oral to the Written Word - AlfeusTjijoro
Chapter 7 GenderStereotypes in Oshiwambo Orature - Petrus Mbenzi
Chapter 8 WhoSpeaks at Spoken Word? Performance Poetry in Namibia - Hugh Ellis and Don Stevenson
Chapter 9 ‘Callof the Witpenssuikerbekkie’: Landscape as a Symbol in Contemporary NamibianPoetry - Sarala Krishnamurthy
Chapter 10Namibian Poetry since Independence: A Poet’s Perspective - Keamogetsi JosephMolapong interviewed by Helen Vale
Chapter 11Representing Namibian Drama (1985-2000): Frederick Philander - LaurindaOlivier-Sampson
Chapter 12 WhenApplied Theatre is No Rehearsal for the Revolution - NashilongweshipweMushaandja
Chapter 13 TheDevelopment in Theatre since Independence: a Director’s Perspective - SandyRudd interviewed by Helen Vale
Chapter 14Reading the Namibian Film - Hans-Christian Mahnke
Chapter 15 TheNamibian Novel: Reflections of an Author- Brian Harlech-Jones
Chapter 16 Powerat the Margins: A Black Female Agency in Two Namibian Novels - Netta SarahKornberg
Chapter 17utotelic Violence: An Analysis of Namibian Short Stories in Elizabeth Khaxas’sWe Must Choose Life - Juliet S. Pasi and Nelson Mlambo
Chapter 18‘Keeping a pet bushman alive’: Piet van Rooyen’s Namibian Oeuvre - Helize vanVuuren
Chapter 19 Willthere be Written Literature in the Ju ’hoansi, a Khoesan Language of Namibia? -Kerry Jones and Megan Biesele
Chapter 20Multilingual Children’s Books in an Independent Namibia: The Emergence of a NewLiterature - Andree-Jeanne Tötemeyer
Chapter 21 Whenthe Colonised Imperialists go Post-Colonial: Namibian-German Literaturesince Independence - Sylvia Schlettwein
Chapter 22Books, Words and Truth in Namibia: The contribution of New Namibia Books (1990- 2005) - Jane Katjavivi
Index
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