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Contemporary english oral poetry by black poets in Great Britain and South Africa : a comparison between Linton Kwesi Johnson and Mzwakhe Mbuli
Bibliography: pages 242-266.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/20139 Contemporary english oral poetry by black poets in Great Britain and South Africa : a comparison between Linton Kwesi Johnson and Mzwakhe Mbuli Kozain, Rustum Sole, Kelwyn Poets, Black - South Africa Poets, Black - Great Britain Aesthetics Folk poetry - Political aspects - South Africa Popular culture Oral literature - South Africa Bibliography: pages 242-266. The general aims of this dissertation are: to study a form of literature traditionally disregarded by a text-bound academy; to argue that form is an important element in ideological analyses of the poetry under discussion; and, on the basis of this second aim, to argue for a comparative, rigorously critical approach to the poetry of Mzwakhe Mbuli. Previous evaluations of Mbuli's poetry are characterised by acclaim which, the author contends, is only possible because of under-researched criticism, representing a general trend in South African literary culture. Compared to Linton Kwesi Johnson's work, for instance, Mbuli's poetry does not emerge as the innovative and progressive art - in both content and form - it is claimed to be. Mbuli and his critics are thus read as a case study of a general trend. Johnson and Mbuli mainly perform their poetry with musical accompaniment and distribute it as sound-recording. This study's approach then differs from the approaches of general oral literature studies because influential writers on oral literature - specifically Walter J. Ong, Ruth Finnegan and Paul Zumthor - do not address the genre under investigation here. Nevertheless, their writings are explored in order to show why particularly Ong and Finnegan's approaches are inadequate. The author argues that using the orality of the poetry as an organising, theoretical principle is insufficient for the task at hand. On cue from Zumthor, this study suggests an approach through Cultural Studies and conceives of the subject matter as popular culture. 2016-06-27T07:44:11Z 2016-06-27T07:44:11Z 1994 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20139 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | Contemporary english oral poetry by black poets in Great Britain and South Africa : a comparison between Linton Kwesi Johnson and Mzwakhe Mbuli |
| title_full | Contemporary english oral poetry by black poets in Great Britain and South Africa : a comparison between Linton Kwesi Johnson and Mzwakhe Mbuli |
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| title_short | Contemporary english oral poetry by black poets in Great Britain and South Africa : a comparison between Linton Kwesi Johnson and Mzwakhe Mbuli |
| title_sort | contemporary english oral poetry by black poets in great britain and south africa a comparison between linton kwesi johnson and mzwakhe mbuli |
| topic | Poets, Black - South Africa Poets, Black - Great Britain Aesthetics Folk poetry - Political aspects - South Africa Popular culture Oral literature - South Africa |
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