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