This collection explores topical and current issues in indigenous African language literature of South Africa. These include narratological elements of literature, language usage, poetry analysis, and song lyrics. Each scholar presents findings that are particular to their research, thus making the book a valuable source of knowledge penned in a diversity of writing styles across different literary genres. Seventy per cent of the chapters are written in English and thirty per cent in isiZulu, a gesture towards encouraging research presentations in indigenous languages. Also of interest is…mehr
This collection explores topical and current issues in indigenous African language literature of South Africa. These include narratological elements of literature, language usage, poetry analysis, and song lyrics. Each scholar presents findings that are particular to their research, thus making the book a valuable source of knowledge penned in a diversity of writing styles across different literary genres.
Seventy per cent of the chapters are written in English and thirty per cent in isiZulu, a gesture towards encouraging research presentations in indigenous languages. Also of interest is that the chapter content covers traditional or largely obsolete forms such as folklore and essays.
E.D.M. Sibiya, also known as Dumisani Sibiy, is an award-winning novelist, short story writer and poet. Sibiya is a three times winner of the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature for his novels Kungasa Ngifile, Ngidedele Ngife and Ngiyolibala Ngifile. Sibiya has been the recipient of several academic excellence awards as well. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Publishing Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand. Zilibele Mtumane is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of African Languages and the School of Languages at the University of Johannesburg. He holds the degree of DLitt.et Phil from the University of South Africa, specialising in African languages.
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About the Editors
Acknowledgements
Editors' Preface
1. Actions as a Means of Characterisation in E.D.M. Sibiya's Ngiyolibala Ngifile
Zilibele Mtumane and Martha Hadebe
2. Translating Literature: An Alternative Tool for Teaching Foreign Culture
