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Sol Plaatje's Mhudi: History, criticism, celebration by Sabata-mpho Mokae (Engli
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN-13
- 9781847012760
- Type
- NA
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- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Sol Plaatje's Mhudi: History, Criticism, Celebration
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Publisher
- James Currey, Lesego Malepe, Laurence Wright, Chris Thurman, Antjie Krog, Brian Willan, Bheki Peterson, Sabata-mpho Mokae, Zakes Mda
- Topic
- Literature
- Item Width
- 156mm
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Joint winner of Best Non-Fiction Biography, Humanities and Social Sciences Awards 2020 Sol Plaatje's Mhudi is the first full-length novel in English to have been written by a black South African and is widely regarded as one of Africa's most important literary works. Drawing upon both oral and literary traditions, Plaatje uses the form of the historical novel, and romance genre, to explore the 19th-century dispossession of his people, to provide a novel black perspective on their history. It is a book that speaks to present-day concerns, to do with land, language, history and decolonisation. Today the novel has iconic status, not only in South Africa, but worldwide - it has been translated into a number of languages - and its impact on other writers has been profound. The novelist Bessie Head described it as more than a classic; there is just no other book on earth like it. All the stature and grandeur of the author are in it. A century after its writing in London in 1920 [it was published in South Africa in 1930, for reasons explained in the book], and at a time of intellectual ferment, with debates on decolonisation to the fore, in popular culture as much as in the academy, this book celebrates Mhudi's place in African literature, reviews its critical reception, and offers fresh perspectives. The contributors discuss Mhudis genesis, writing and publication; its reception by literary critics from the 1930s to thepresent; Mhudi as a feminist novel; Mhudis use of oral tradition; issues of translation; Mhudi in the context of African literature and history, and the decolonisation of the curriculum. An authoritative listing of all editions of Mhudi, translations as well as in English completes the book. SABATA MOKAE is a novelist and lecturer in creative writing at Sol Plaatje University, Kimberley, and the author of The Story of Sol T. Plaatje (2010). BRIAN WILLAN is Senior Research Fellow at Rhodes University, Extraordinary Professor at Sol Plaatje and North West Universities. He is the author of Sol Plaatje: a life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje,1876-1932 (2018), and co-editor (with Janet Remmington and Bheki Peterson) of Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present (2016). Africa: Jacana
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Publisher
James Currey, Lesego Malepe, Laurence Wright, Chris Thurman, Antjie Krog, Brian Willan, Bheki Peterson, Sabata-mpho Mokae, Zakes Mda
ISBN-13
9781847012760
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20049933189
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Book Title
Sol Plaatje's Mhudi: History, Criticism, Celebration
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2021
Number of Pages
272 Pages
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Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
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United Kingdom
Editor
Sabata-Mpho Mokae, Brian Willan
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