'IRON ON IRON': MODERNISM ENGAGING APARTHEID IN SOME SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAY POEMS 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 33 作者:Wright,Laurence 摘要: Modernism tends to be criticised, internationally, as politically conservative. The objection is often valid, although the charge says little about ...
South AfricaModernismapartheidDennis BrutusJohn HendrickseAlan PatonLeonard KozaBarbara HepworthKhoiModernism tends to be criticised, internationally, as politically conservative. The objection is often valid, although the charge says little about the quality of artistic achievement involved. This article ...
The poem, ‘Nothing’s Changed’ by Tatmkhulu Afrika, talks about the rampant apartheid system in District Six near Cape Town in South Africa, and explores racism. Tatamkhulu Afrika's poetry falls within the realm of African poetry, capturing the realities, struggles, and aspirations of the ...
The poem, ‘Nothing’s Changed’ by Tatmkhulu Afrika, talks about the rampant apartheid system in District Six near Cape Town in South Africa, and explores racism.Racism is a central theme in the poem, exposing the deep-seated racial divisions and inequalities in society. Afrika's poetry ...
While it can feel anachronistic today to read work that foments against Apartheid South Africa, such allusions resonate chillingly in later poems that visit the atrocity enacted by Hurricane Katrina and its mismanaged aftermath in New Orleans and a meditation o...
Therefore, as a writer who was subjected to racial segregation during the apartheid regime, he positioned himself as a social poet concerned about the sociopolitical situation of Africans in Africa. The article illustrates how Maphalla's use of tone and attitude towards raci...