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Author Neser, Ashlee

Title Stranger at Home : the Praise Poet in Apartheid South Africa
Published Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press, 2011

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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
SUBJECT Yali-Manisi, D. L. P. fast
Subject Poets, Black -- South Africa
Laudatory poetry, Xhosa -- History and criticism
Xhosa poetry -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Laudatory poetry, Xhosa
Poets, Black
Xhosa poetry
South Africa
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781868145546
1868145549