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Poems, Kelwyn Sole

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Promised Land, Go home and do not sleep, Women, trespassing in a garden

The Critic In A State Of Emergency: Towards A Theory Of Reconstruction (After February 2), Michael Chapman

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Given that this was written not by a hack journalist but by one of our leading social analysts, we begin to gauge the impact on South Africans of the unbannings, the mass rallies and, most strikingly, the release of Nelson Mandela. (Conversely, the impact can also be measured by the militancy of the white right wing and the hard-line Africanism of the PAC.) In our more sober moments, however, we remind ourselves that February 2 was not a bolt from the blue. Rather, sustained opposition to apartheid during the 1980s - inspired and co-ordinated at home and abroad by UDF/ …

Introduction, Kirsten Holst Petersen

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It is not a revolutionary observation that South Africa is at a crossroads. On the one hand things look good: Mandela is free, the ANC is unbanned, the pass laws have been officially dropped, and a constitutional conference about the final abolishment of the apartheid state and the institution of a new state based on democratic power-sharing is at an advanced stage of planning. On the other side things are not substantially dif­ferent. The apartheid state is still there, blacks still do not have the vote, and most important of all, the inequality and the resultant apalling living conditions for …

Kunapipi 13(1&2) 1991, Contents, Editorial, Contributors, Anna Rutherford

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Kunapipi 13(1&2) 1991, Contents, Editorial, Contributors.

Intimate Moments: Dispelling The Cancer Myth With Real Life - Summer Rain By Nanna Hauge Kristensen., Sophie Townsend

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Nanna Hauge Kristensen’s Summer Rain is a small piece in length and in scope. It is intimate, almost fragmentary. It is simply a story of a woman, who is a mother, and a daughter, and who has cancer; a woman undergoing treatment, and raising her child, and dealing with the ramifications of what cancer treatment means. An anthropologist by training, Kristensen’s observational, almost distanced approach style, allows us to glimpse her life, but also to feel it. There is something very empirical about what she’s doing in this piece, and she allows us no room to pretend that her cancer …

“Qualia”: The Subjective Qualities Of Sound As Experience Of The Self, Vanessa Ribeiro Rodrigues

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How do we construct the perception of the world and Others through sounds? How are we able to express the myriad of feelings inside ourselves into an intelligible structure in order to be understood? What is the amount of interference in the way we express those [translated] feelings? These are some of the subtle questions raised by “Qualia”, a five-episode radio feature by Spanish artist and performer Charo Calvo, aired in 2016 by ABC Radio National’s Soundproof show in Australia.

The name “Qualia” evokes the philosophical theory of an internal and subjective component of sense and mental perceptions, which are …

Book Reviews, Notes On Contributors And Index, Anna Rutherford

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Book Reviews, Notes on Contributors and Index

A Novelist At The Crossroad: Bessie Head's A Bewitched Crossroad, Joyce Johnson

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In A Bewitched Crossroad, Bessie Head combines the concerns of the historian with those of the novelist and fits a comprehensive account of social and political events in Southern Africa, in the nineteenth century into an artistically devised narrative. Despite her concern with social issues and with the communal destiny, Head displays the novelist's interest both as a historical document and as a literary experiment.

Excerpt From The Intended, David Dabydeen

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Whenever he came to my room, he no longer scrutinized the wallpaper or floor for evidence of stains and dirt. What used to be quick, hostile visits, ameloriated only by my handing over the rent, became leisurely affairs: Mr Ali, face drawn, eyes softened with grief, sitting on my bed talking endlessly about his family. The thickness of his accent and his frequent lapses into Urdu meant it was difficult to follow him, but I was a model of patience, listening intently, nodding sympathetically, breaking out with the odd apostrophe as if his suffering was also mine. Although largely bored …

Interview, David Dabydeen

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David Dabydeen's first novel, The Intended, was published by Seeker & Warburg in February 1991. Frank Birbalsingh interviewed David Dabydeen prior to the publication of the novel.

Engineering The Female Subject: Erna Brodber's Myal, Evelyn O'Callaghan

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At a recent staff-postgraduate seminar hosted by the English Department at U.W.I., Cave Hill, Glyne Griffith presented an analysis of Roger Mais's fiction in which he interrogated certain traditional notions of authorial omniscience and called attention to the power inherent in representation. The omnipotent omniscient narrator, unknowable and beyond challenge, solicits the reader's absolute trust in authorial placing or definition of characters, from whom the narrator maintains a godlike distance. Within this type of literary discourse, inherited from mainstream English fiction of the nineteenth century, characters are 'written': that is, settled, solidified or, as Harris1 would have it, 'consolidated' and …

The Life Of Myth And Its Possible Bearing On Erna Brodber' S Fictions Jane And Louisa Will Soon Come Home And Myal, Wilson Harris

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My impression is that Erna Brodber brings into play an unusual mythmaking talent in her two novels at a time when myth is denigrated or undervalued in favour of a realism divorced from the intuitive imagination. Perhaps it would be wise to attempt to sketch in a kind of backcloth to the novels which may help, in some degree, to say what are my approaches to 'myth' before I come to the novels themselves.

From Linear To Areal: Suggestions Towards A Comparative Literary Geography Of Canada And Australia, Martin Leer

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Geography has been for too long a hidden dimension of literary studies, compared to history. This is all the more surprising since historians have long seen the two as complementary: geography is the other side of history as space is the other side of time. Especially the work of the French Annals school of history springs to mind: Lucien Febvre, Fernand Braudel and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie are cultural geographers as much as historians. And it is thought-provoking that while literary scholars have feared to tread on geographical ground, scared perhaps that it would give way to Montesquieu's theory of …

Poems, Ian Saw

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The Mime-artist becoming a blind-man, It's her motion, Death of Ginger Meggs, Every child knows one

Sonnet 35, E Speers

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Oh, my Tubby Wubbins! Beautiful cat! How did I get so lucky in this world That it's my humble home in which you' re curled, Silvery tabby tom, so fine and fat. Your pale green eyes are rimmed with kohl, or so It seems. Your face is tigerish and square. A mink, or a movie star, would love to wear A coat like yours. You've blessed my life, you know.

A Gentle Consummation, Zeny Giles

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Kathleen stands on the verandah and looks out. It is after four and the cars come one after another, turning from Maitland Road and moving past her house in an endless stream. She can feel their vibration as she leans against the doorway. Now they have stopped. The gates will be down at Clyde Street. She can see the impatience on the faces, the irritation as the cars bank up. AU those men going home, tired after work, needing to be cosseted and fed. She wishes she could put her arms around them all to give them comfort. The cars …

A View Of Newcastle, Braye Park

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There's a reservoir but nowhere for a drink of water and not even a tree if you need to go to the toilet.

Poems, Charles Jordan

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Baths, Boy on a beach, Lizard in the Love letter

Poems, Christopher Pollnitz

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Moving, 'After two Thousand Years...'

My Holiday At My Gran's, Kate Walker

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My name is Annie and when I was eleven I went to my Gran's for a holiday. I packed my own bags and caught the train by myself to the country town where she lived in a big house with verandahs all around.

Coal River On A Sunday, Russell Mcdougall

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In 1797, when Lieutenant John Shortland sailed into the unknown waters of what is now Newcastle Harbour, he discovered 'a very fine coal river' - and, although the official name of the settlement that grew up in the 'valley about a quarter of a mile from the harbour entrance' was Newcastle, it became known as Coal River (also for a time King's Town). The reasons for settlement were coal and convicts. In the early 1800s Newcastle rivalled notorious Norfolk Island as a place of 'secondary' punishment, that is as a prison location for the worst convicts from Sydney, who, having …

Poems, Paul Kavanagh

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Frogs (for Dermod), Tortoise

The Newcastle That Henry Lawson Knew, Rosemary Melville

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In 1884, Henry Lawson left Sydney by steamship for Newcastle, a sea port and coal-mining centre sixty nautical miles to the north. An apprentice coach painter employed by the Hudson Brothers, railway rolling stock manufacturers of Sydney, Lawson was to spend some months working at the firm's Wickham branch at the western end of the port of Newcastle. This experience brought the young writer into an environment unique in Australia, for Newcastle was an odd mix of coal-miners, railway men, wharf labourers, soap makers, brewery hands and coach-builders. That Lawson lived and worked in this environment at a formative stage …

The Loquat Tree, P. A Jeffery

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There we are for the last time, Grandpa and I under the loquat tree. He is sitting on the highbacked oak chair and his expression, captured forever in black and white, is one of mild surprise.

Poems, Julian Croft

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Trepidations, Earthquake, Faults, Suburbs, Assessing the damage, After shock

Hospitalizing, Marion Halligan

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Veronica Ballod sits in a train travelling north. She has forgotten that once trains meant connection with glamorous places, so that whenever she saw or heard one her heart yearned to be on it, going there. Not staying here. Or rather, she hasn't forgotten, she remembers it as a fond desultory fact, long past its use-by date. Train travel is a chore, now. Planes are what is glamorous, planes to Europe. The destination, if not the vehicle. The cities of home are known.

Kunapipi 12 (3) 1990, Contents, Editorial, Anna Rutherford

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Contents, Editorial

A Personal Note, G D. Killam

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We met only briefly at Derry Jeffares' home in Leeds in 1964 on the evening of the day Chinua read his paper 'The Novelist as Teacher'. We met again at Nsukka in the month preceding the separation of Biafra. Geoffrey Hill, the British poet, had come to Ibadan for a term on leave from Leeds. Desmond Maxwell, Dean of Arts at lbadan at the time, very kindly let us have the Peugeot 404 Faculty wagon for our journey. We trekked to Benin and then to Nsukka on a two-day hop. On the west of the Niger it was easy enough: …

Working With Chinua Achebe: The African Writers Series James Currey, Alan Hill And Keith Sambrook In Conversation With Kirsten Holst Petersen

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The following contribution is based on two interviews, one with James Currey and Keith Sambrook, and one with Alan Hill, both recorded in August 1990 in London.

Anthills Of The Savannah And The Ideology Of Leadership, David Maughan-Brown

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The publishers' contribution to the back-cover blurb on the paperback edition of Anthills of the Savannah consists of a single, wholly unexceptionable, sentence: 'Chinua Achebe's new novel, his first for 21 years, has been received with great acclaim.' The message is clear: Achebe is so well known that there is no need for biographical notes; this novel has been 21 years in the gestation and critics, as one might expect, have recognised the greatness of so long-awaited a novel from so fine an author.