Trends And Tropes

Some Aspects of African Indigenous Literatures of South Africa
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-76055-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

This collection explores topical and current issues in indigenous African language literature of South Africa. These include narratological elements of literature, language usage, poetry analysis, and song lyrics. Each scholar presents findings that are particular to their research, thus making the book a valuable source of knowledge penned in a diversity of writing styles across different literary genres.

Seventy per cent of the chapters are written in English and thirty per cent in isiZulu, a gesture towards encouraging research presentations in indigenous languages. Also of interest is that the chapter content covers traditional or largely obsolete forms such as folklore and essays.

Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.

Zielgruppe

Academic, General, and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sibiya, E. D. M.

Mtumane, Zilibele

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editors

Acknowledgements

Editors’ Preface

1. Actions as a Means of Characterisation in E.D.M. Sibiya’s Ngiyolibala Ngifile

Zilibele Mtumane and Martha Hadebe

2. Translating Literature: An Alternative Tool for Teaching Foreign Culture

Munzhedzi James Mafela

3. Isenzasamuntu Emaqoqweni Amabili Ezinkondlo ZesiZulu

Zilibele Mtumane and Gcinile Beauty Thwala

4. Some Forms of Repetition in N. Sibiya’s Essays in Amalangabi

Zilibele Mtumane and Sizwe Zwelakhe Dlamini

5. Proverbs and the Inculcation of Moral Values in the Youth: Reflections on Children’s Literature

Cynthia Daphne Danisile Ntuli

6. Isakhiwo Sangaphakathi Ezinkondlweni Zika-B.W. Vilakazi

Isaac Mndawe and Thabani Mhlongo

7. Dialogue as a Device of Characterisation in D.B.Z. Ntuli’s Short Stories in Uthingo Lwenkosazana

Zilibele Mtumane and Augasten Muziwandile Sithole

8. Abalingiswa, Isakhiwo Nesizinda Njengamasu Okuxoxa Indaba Emculweni Kamaskandi

Dumisani Sibiya and Lindokuhle Mkhize

9. Natural Symbolism in D.B.Z. Ntuli’s Selected Short Stories

Dumisani Sibiya and Sinolwazi M. Nxumalo

10. The Position of Women in Selected Post-apartheid IsiZulu Plays

Themba Madingiza

Inconclusive Conclusions

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

E.D.M. Sibiya, also known as Dumisani Sibiy, is an award-winning novelist, short story writer and poet. Sibiya is a three times winner of the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature for his novels Kungasa Ngifile, Ngidedele Ngife and Ngiyolibala Ngifile. Sibiya has been the recipient of several academic excellence awards as well. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Publishing Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand. 

Zilibele Mtumane is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of African Languages and the School of Languages at the University of Johannesburg. He holds the degree of DLitt.et Phil from the University of South Africa, specialising in African languages.