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Title Writing Namibia : coming of age / Sarala Krishnamurthy, Nelson Mlambo, and Helen Vale (eds.)
Published Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Namibia Resource Centre & Southern Africa Library, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (369 pages)
Contents Mindscapes: the story of Namibia in art and stone / André du Pisani -- Dealing with trauma and the limits to liberation: ex-detainees speaking out / Henning Melber -- Coming of age transnationally - life stories of Namibian child refugees. A literature review / Yvonne Niekrenz, Caroline Schmitt, Matthias D. Witte -- Whiteness, power and privilege? a critique of a western account of the Herero and Nama genocide in Horst Drechsler's Let us die fighting / Maurice Taonezvi Vambe -- Queering the archive: African praxis in performative writing / Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja -- Afrikaans Dramatist George Weideman's appeal for freedom / Jean Lombard -- Crimes in the colony. Reading Giselher W. Hoffmann's Novel Diamantenfieber (2006) as a metaphor of German-Namibian history / Julia Augart -- Oral traditions in German-Namibian literature. The Südwester Geschichten by Ernst Rudolf Scherz / Stephan Mühr -- Nayi tye ngaa waka - Now it is obvious: the significance of Oshiwambo wedding songs in the 21st century / Petrus Angula Mbenzi -- Herero-Nama genocide as historical fiction: a new historical analysis of Mama Namibia, The Scattering, and The lie of the land / Festus Abiatar and Sarala Krishnamurthy -- Ecocriticism and verse: insights from Tales of the rainbow: a collection of poems in English by Julia Amukoshi and A true me in words: an anthology of poems by Annelie Nghikembwa Swama / Swama Simaneka Kandali Andimba and Jairos Kangira -- Exploring Herero genocide survivor narratives / Sarala Krishnamurthy and Alexandra Tjiramanga -- Authoring the "Unspeakables", Moralising the public sphere: a literary examination of social commitment and the artistic vision in Sifiso Nyathi's Œuvre / Iithula Leena and Nelson Mlambo -- Catharsis in Namibian women's autobiography / Magdalena Cloete and Sarala Krishnamurthy -- Representations of post-independence leadership in selected Namibian poetry (1990-2020) / Mercy Chiruvo-Mushonga and Nelson Mlambo -- Interrogating the narrative "#Men Are Trash" in Namibian women's spoken poetry with a focus on gender-based violence / Frieda Ndeutala Mukufa and Sarala Krishnamurthy
Summary A rich collection of captivating and remarkable chapters, Writing Namibia Coming of Age presents research of senior academics as well as emerging scholars from Namibia. The book includes wide ranging topics in literature written in English and other Namibian languages, such as German, Afrikaans and Oshiwambo. Almost thirty years after independence, Namibia literature has come of age with new writers experimenting with different genres and varied aspects of literature. As an aesthetic object and social phenomenon, Namibian literature still fulfils the function of social conscience and as new writers emerge, there is ample demonstration that, pluri-vocal as they are, Namibian literary texts relate in a complex manner to the socio-historical trends shaping the country. The Namibian literary-critical tradition continues to paint some versions of Namibia and what we find in this new and highly welcome volume is a canvas of rich voices and perspectives that demonstrate an intricate diversity in terms of culture, language, and themes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 25, 2022)
Subject Namibian literature -- History and criticism
Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Namibian literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Krishnamurthy, Sarala, editor.
Mlambo, Nelson, 1977- editor.
Vale, Helen, editor.
ISBN 9783906927428
3906927423