Song Of The Broken String
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Author | : Stephen Watson |
Publisher | : Sheep Meadow Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1991-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
The /Xam Bushmen, hunters, gatherers, some poets among them, were a stone age people who survived nearly 5,000 years in the region now known as the Cape Province of South Africa. By the turn of this century they had completely disappeared, destroyed finally by the murderous European settlement of the interior. Song of the Broken String has its provenance in the oral tradition of this ancient culture. In the 1860s, a German linguist named W. H. Bleek become aware of the genocide in progress. Taking into his service three /Xam Bushmen he found working as convict laborers in a chain gang, he set about preserving a small part of their heritage. After devising a phonetic notation of the /Xam's language, he transcribed the personal narratives, songs, and folktales of these three men and translated them into English. Housed in an archive at the University of Cape Town, the 12,000 pages of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection are all that remains of this people and their language. Stephen Watson, a contemporary South African poet, has explored this archive, "re-translating" Bleek's word-for-word English prose into poems in which something of the power of those original voices lives on, however filtered through the 19th century ethnographer and the 20th century writer. The results not only offer a path into a powerful oral tradition, but also raise questions about the ways in which we listen to and "translate" cultures that are distant or lost. Song of the Broken String does not bring back the /Xam, it is not a collection of artifacts. Something survives here that is almost monumental, certainly beautiful. Stephen Watson, a contemporary South African poet and writer, has explored this archive, "re-translating" Bleek's word- for- word English prose into poems in which the power of these original voices would live on. However filtered through the 19th century ethnographer and the 20th century writer, poetry seemed the obvious form for this dialogue. The results not only offer a way into a powerful oral tradition but also raise questions about the ways in which we listen to and "translate" cultures that are distant or lost, cultures in whose fate we are somehow complicit. Song of the Broken String does not bring back the /Xam, but it makes their ghosts vital presences in our own literary tradition.
Author | : Grace Schulman |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2008-09-22 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0547347855 |
An award-winning contemporary poet celebrates the joyful, impossible language of music in this collection that “surpasses her distinguished previous work” (Harold Bloom). One of the finest poets writing today, Grace Schulman finds order in art and nature that enables her to stand fast in a threatened world. The title refers to Itzhak Perlman’s performance of a violin concerto with a snapped string, which inspires a celebration of life despite limitations. For her, song imparts endurance: Thelonious Monk evokes Creation; John Coltrane’s improvisations embody her own heart’s desire to “get it right on the first take”; the wind plays a harp-shaped oak; and her immigrant ancestors remember their past by singing prayers on a ship bound for New York. In the words of Wallace Shawn, “When I read her, she makes me want to live to be four hundred years old, because she makes me feel that there is so much out there, and it’s unbearable to miss any of it.” “Grace Shulman has developed into one of the permanent poets of her generation.” —Harold Bloom “[An] extended paean to the triumph of art over adversity or, perhaps, to the birth of beauty in adversity.” —The Seattle Times
Author | : Denis Hirson |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780810150690 |
A collection of South African poetry.
Author | : Neil Bennun |
Publisher | : Neil Bennun |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780670912506 |
The San people were a South African tribe who lived in the scrubland and communicated in a distinct click language. During the nineteenth century they were labelled as sub-human and hunted as animals by the Boers and the British. sister-in-law Lucy Lloyd, befriended some San bushmen and gradually began to document their language, resulting in an extraordinary archive of material. beautiful rock art and powerful fables. The fables will run throughout the book.
Author | : Grace Schulman |
Publisher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2008-09 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780547085982 |
One of the finest poets writing today, Grace Schulman finds order in art and nature that enables her to stand fast in a threatened world. The title refers to Itzhak Perlman’s performance of a violin concerto with a snapped string, which inspires a celebration of life despite limitations. For her, song imparts endurance: Thelonious Monk evokes Creation; John Coltrane’s improvisations embody her own heart’s desire to "get it right on the first take”; the wind plays a harp-shaped oak; and her immigrant ancestors remember their past by singing prayers on a ship bound for New York. In the words of Wallace Shawn, "When I read her, she makes me want to live to be four hundred years old, because she makes me feel that there is so much out there, and it’s unbearable to miss any of it.”
Author | : Shibani Arora |
Publisher | : Scriptor Publication |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9392203527 |
Writer's Ink has poetry that resonates with human emotions of all kinds. The poems in this collection delve into the mysteries of love and longing, celebrate nature's wonder and explore our souls' raw vulnerability. Most of the poems in this collection were written during the unprecedented Covid 19 times. In the midst of uncertainty and confusion, writing poetry was an anchor I held on to keep me afloat with a positive spirit. Poetry has the power to carry us beyond the constraints of our everyday lives. It allows us to dream without inhibitions, to deliberate upon life's complexities and to find peace in the midst of chaos. It touches the depths of our being… offering solace, inspiration, and a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world we live in.Each time I hold my new poetry book in my hand, I thank my Lord Jesus for giving me the grace to write and for turning my dream into reality.It is my hope that within these pages you will find verses that will touch your soul and may you witness the magic which only words can weave
Author | : J. D. Lewis-Williams |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2016-07 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1315423766 |
J.D. Lewis-Williams, one of the leading South African archaeologists and ethnographers, uses ethnographic, archival, and archaeological lines of research to understand San-Bushman mythological stories. From this, he establishes a more nuanced theory of the role of myths in cultures worldwide.
Author | : Julie Grant |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2022-09-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000688577 |
The San (hunter- gatherers) and Khoe (herders) of southern Africa were dispossessed of their land before, during and after the European colonial period, which started in 1652. They were often enslaved and forbidden from practicing their culture and speaking their languages. In South Africa, under apartheid, after 1948, they were reclassified as “Coloured” which further undermined Khoe and San culture, forcing them to reconfigure and realign their identities and loyalties. Southern Africa is no longer under colonial or apartheid rule; the San and Khoe, however, continue in the struggle to maintain the remnants of their languages and cultures, and are marginalised by the dominant peoples of the region. The San in particular, continue to command very extensive research attention from a variety of disciplines, from anthropology and linguistics to genetics. They are, however, usually studied as static historical objects but they are not merely peoples of the past, as is often assumed; they are very much alive in contemporary society with cultural and language needs. This book brings together studies from a range of disciplines to examine what it means to be Indigenous Khoe and San in contemporary southern Africa. It considers the current constraints on Khoe and San identity, language and culture, constantly negotiating an indeterminate social positioning where they are treated as the inconvenient indigenous. Usually studied as original anthropos, but out of their time, this book shifts attention from the past to the present, and how the San have negotiated language, literacy and identity for coping in the period of modernity. It reveals that Afrikaans is indeed an African language, incubated not only by Cape Malay slaves working in the kitchens of the early Dutch settlers, but also by the Khoe and San who interacted with sailors from passing ships plying the West coast of southern Africa from the 14th century. The book re- examines the idea of literacy, its relationship to language, and how these shape identity. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.
Author | : E. C. C. Baillie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Hymns, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Odafe Atogun |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101871466 |
A stunning debut from a new voice in Nigerian literature: a mesmerizing, Kafkaesque narrative, informed by the life of musical superstar Fela Kuti. The day a stained brown envelope arrives from Lagos, the exiled musician Taduno knows that the time has come to return home. Arriving back in Nigeria full of hope, he soon discovers that his people no longer recognize or remember him or his music, and that his girlfriend, Lela, has disappeared, abducted by government agents. As Taduno unravels the mystery of his lost life and searches for his lost love, he must face a difficult decision: to fight for Lela or for his people. A stunning work of fiction, Taduno’s Song is a heartfelt, deeply affecting tale of love, sacrifice, and courage.