The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at AutobiographyBoydell & Brewer Ltd, 2011 - 216 Seiten Poet and anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus recorded a series of tapes in the 1970s which have been edited and annotated by Bernth Lindfors to give valuable insights into Brutus's life and works. Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) is known internationally as a South African poet, anti-apartheid activist and campaigner for human rights and the release of political prisoners. His literary works include Sirens Knuckles Boots (1963), Letters to Martha, and Other Poems from a South African Prison (1968), A Simple Lust (1973), and Stubborn Hope (1978). Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African Literatures, The University of Texas at Austin, and founding editor of Research in AfricanLiteratures. He has written and edited numerous books on African literature, including Folklore in Nigerian Literature (1973), Popular Literatures in Africa (1991), Africans on Stage (1999), Early Soyinka (2008), and Early Achebe (2009). |
Inhalt
Recollections | 15 |
Family Background | 32 |
Attempt to Escape | 47 |
Robben Island | 92 |
Interlude | 110 |
Notes on my Life | 127 |
Somehow Tenderness Survives | 143 |
Talking with Students | 157 |
Reviewing a Review | 169 |
On Literature Commitment | 180 |
On my Poetry | 187 |
Further Notes on Poetry | 197 |
Arthur Nortje 19421970 | 206 |