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题名/责任者:

Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts movement : poetics of possibility / Uhuru Portia Phalafala.

出版发行项:

Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : James Currey, 2024.

ISBN:

9781847012777 :

ISBN:

1847012779

载体形态项:

x, 211 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

变异题名:

Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Black Arts movement : poetics of possibility

丛编说明:

African articulations

丛编统一题名:

African articulations.

个人责任者:

Phalafala, Uhuru Portia, author.

个人名称主题:

Kgositsile, Keorapetse.

论题主题:

Black Arts movement.

中图法分类号:

I402

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

内容附注:

Introduction: Elsewhere -- A Writing Life - A Riting Life - A Rioting Life -- Names: Mother, What is my Name? -- Songs: Native Sons Dancing Like Crazy -- Spaces: wenty-First-Century Suns/Sons Must Rise Again -- Places: Black Consciousness Ecologies of Futurity -- Coda

摘要附注:

Key study on writer and activist Kgositsile that presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and its diaspora and makes a major contribution to the histories of Black lives, gender studies, jazz studies, politics, and creativity. The cultural configurations of the Black Atlantic cannot be fully understood without recognising the significant presence of writers and artists from the African continent itself. Among the most influential was South African poet laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile, or 'Bra Willie', as he was affectionately known. Yet, until now, there has been no full-length study of his work. Uhuru Phalafala's wide-ranging book reveals the foundational influence of Kgositsile's mother and grandmother on his craft and unveils the importance of the oral/aural traditions, indigenous knowledge systems, and cosmologies he carried with him into and after exile. It illuminates a southern African modernity that was strongly gendered and deployed in anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, anti-apartheid, and civil rights struggles. Using the original concept of 'elsewhere', the author maps the sources of Kgositsile's transformative verse, which in turn generated 'poetics of possibility' for his contemporaries in the Black Arts and Black Power Movements and beyond - among them Maya Angelou, Larry Neal, Gwendolyn Brooks, Tom Dent, members of The Last Poets, Otabenga Jones & Associates, and rapper Earl Sweatshirt - who all looked to his work to model their identities, cultural movements and radical traditions.

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