Brown, Duncan
(2002). 'Structures of feeling' and constructions of history: Mazisi Kunene's 'Emperor Shaka the Great'.
In: Jones, Eldred Durosimi and Jones, Marjorie eds.
South and Southern African Literature.
African Literature Today (23).
Oxford, UK: James Currey, pp. 63–78.
Abstract
In this article I wish to engage seriously with Mazisi Kunene and his place in South African and African literary histories, through an analysis of what is arguably his best-known work, 'Emperor Shaka the Great' (1979). I suggest the real possibilities and strengths of this poem, while acknowledging the often contradictory 'structures of feeling' that inform and impel the poem.
| Item Type: |
Book Chapter
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| ISBN: |
0-85255-523-7, 978-0-85255-523-1 |
| Keywords: |
African literature; literary studies; African studies; nationalism; identity. |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts |
| Item ID: |
7714 |
| Depositing User: |
Duncan Brown
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| Date Deposited: |
29 May 2007 |
| Last Modified: |
02 Dec 2010 19:59 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/7714 |
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