Sol T. Plaatje's paremiological quest: A common humanity in cultural diversity.
Having written and compiled, from memory, over 700 Setswana proverbs when he was resident in London during the second decade of 1900, Sol T. Plaatje exhibited unusual ethnographic knowledge and remarkable, creative translation skills in diasporalike circumstances. While most literary researchers att...
| Publicado en: | Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 149 - 166 |
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