| Description |
1 online resource (282 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One; One: Writing in a vacuum; Two: Print as preservation; Three: 'Independence' and the ambivalent poet; Part Two; Four: Inventions for the record; Five: Provocative audiences of the academy; Six: Telling lies truer than the truth; Conclusion; Appendix: Note on genealogy; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Stranger at home is about the literary remains of one of South Africa's most talented praise poets, David Manisi. It is about the deeply inhospitable context in which the poet endeavoured to communicate with his peers and, working with the scholar Jeff Opland, with future audiences he would not meet |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Yali-Manisi, D. L. P. -- Criticism and interpretation
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Yali-Manisi, D. L. P. |
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Poets, Black -- South Africa
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Laudatory poetry, Xhosa -- History and criticism
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Xhosa poetry -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Laudatory poetry, Xhosa
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Poets, Black
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Xhosa poetry
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South Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781868145546 |
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1868145549 |
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