Uhuru Portia Phalafala

Mine Mine Mine

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Produktbeschreibung

Using geopoetics to map geopolitics, this epic poem is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafalaâ s familyâ s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Produktdetails

• African Poetry Book
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 147mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 168g
• ISBN-13: 9781496235152
• ISBN-10: 1496235150
• Artikelnr.: 64201083

Autorenporträt

Uhuru Portia Phalafala is a senior lecturer of English literature at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. She is the author of Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Black Arts Movement: Poetics of Possibility and coeditor of Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Poems, 1969–2018 (Nebraska, 2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Mine: A Litany of Loss
Movement 1. Lekarapa
Movement 2. Moletelo
Movement 3. Makgolwa
Movement 4. Black Rage in Swallow
Movement 5. Ancestral Suite
Movement 6. Lefa la ntate
Coda. Unburied
Part 2. State of Mine: Deeds
Notes