‘Text’ and ‘voice’ in recent South African poetry

This article explores in some depth two volumes of poetry which are indicative of a tension between the poem as ‘text’ and the poem as ‘voice’, or the self-conscious (metaphoric) ‘reading' or ‘rewriting ’ of the world versus the outward (prophetic) ‘speaking' to the world. While neither bo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: C. Woeber
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: AOSIS 1996-04-01
Series:Literator
Online Access:https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/610