Volume, Power, Originality: Reassessing the Complexities of Soweto Poetry.
This article aims to reassess recent and continuing analyses of Soweto poetry that merely confirm it as a product and expression of a Black Consciousness vogue. Discussing works by Mongane Serote, Sipho Sepamla, James Matthews and Njabulo Ndebele, I argue that although Black Consciousness ideas of s...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 905 - 924 |
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