Tony Voss
Biographic Data
| ID | 6003405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Voss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Voss |
| SIGNATURE | VOSS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Root and Flower of a People's Strength’: On the Bi-centenary of The South African Commercial Advertiser and The South African Journal , 1824–2024
The South African Commercial Advertiser, a weekly, and The South African Journal, a bi-monthly, were published in Cape Town in 1824, until the publisher George Greig and the editors Thomas Pringle and John Fairbairn closed down in the face of the threat of government censorship. In effect, the two overlapped in their coverage and the newspaper and the magazine (or review) are best read together as articulations of the general aims of the triumvir…
Thomas Pringle: “The Beginning of a Future That Has Not Arrived”
In his recent (2020) book, Matthew Shum offers an important rereading of the life, work and contemporary significance of Thomas Pringle, the Scottish South African poet and activist. The book’s challenge stems from three interrelated lines of energy. First is the author’s tracking of Pringle through the three locations of his activity: Scotland, the Cape, London. Second is the argument that Pringle was not from birth or early conviction the liber…
A Story to Tell
Although Sol Plaatje died in 1932 with many of his hopes for South Africa unfulfilled, he has not been forgotten by his fellow South Africans. In a new edition of his biography of Plaatje, Brian Willan, one of the scholars whose work revived interest in Plaatje in the 1980s, has written the life of a great South African for the new South Africa. He has made use of newly discovered documentary sources and oral memory and given us a nuanced account…
Living in the Moment”: The ‘Bushman’ Presence, Past and Future
State and society’s perhaps guilty recognition of the San in the coat of arms of post-apartheid South Africa was accompanied by a scholarly and creative revival of interest in the San’s poetic and material legacy. Two recent books explore that legacy. Helize van Vuuren’s A Necklace of Springbok Ears, which argues for the parity of Von Wielligh’s Boesmanstories with the work of Bleek and Lloyd, shows that writers, drawing inspiration from !Xam ora…
Mazeppa-Maseppa: Migration of a Romantic motif
Mazeppa (1640–1710), The Ukrainian leader and folk-hero, has a controversial history, and a distinct presence in literature and the graphic arts. Byron’s poem (1819) of the legendary figure’s “wild ride” released a mythical energy which absorbed certain French poets and painters of the 19th century. While the Russian tradition, at least from Pushkin’s Poltava (1828), reworked the historical Ukrainian hetman from a Tsarist and nationalist perspect…
Peter Blum and Italy: ‘Italië het ons aangegryp’
Early readers of the two volumes of verse—Steenbok tot poolsee (“Capricorn to Polar Sea”, 1955) and Enklaves van die lig (“Enclaves of the Light”, 1958)—of Peter Blum (1925–90) recognised his original and distinctive grasp of Afrikaans, although he was not a native speaker, and acknowledged that his work brought to the language a strong sense of European culture and history. Within that Europeanness, the Italian dimension of Blum’s work is explor…
Revival and/or Retrieval? A Reading of Corinne Sandwith’s World of Letters
The continuing crisis and militarism of the capitalist world order in the first decades of the twenty-first century recall in certain respects the lead-up to the Second World War. The relevance of the South African alternative press of the 1930s to the politics and culture life of our society post-1994 makes Corinne Sandwith’s just and committed account in World of Letters as much a revival as a retrieval of vigorous debate in what may be a publi…
Notes on Joyce and South Africa: Coincidence and Concordance
These notes offer first a sketch of the significance of James Joyce to a selection of South African writers, from N P van Wyk Louw to Ingrid Winterbach. This is followed by an account of Joyce's allusions to South African in his work up to and including Ulysses. The sequence of allusions in the novel suggests that they follow the plot as it moves in a general sense from politics and alienation to friendship and love. The reading leads to an accou…
The Cambridge History of South African Literature
South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and experiences of its people. The Cambridge History offers a comprehensive, multi-authored history of South African literature in all eleven official languages (and more minor ones) of the country, produced by a team of over forty international experts, including contributors from all of the…
How Are These Things Related That Such Deep Union Should Exist between Them All?”: The Textual Integrity of The Story of an African Farm
A commentary on the first revision of the text of The Story of an African Farm for at least a century, by Stephen Gray (2008), is followed by an argument for the integrity of Schreiner's text, based on the contexts which shaped her choices, the novel's multilingual idiom, its historical determinants of material culture and social and ethnic attitude, and some chronological markers and thematic sequences of the story
Africa South: Viewpoints, 1956-1961
The Flaming Terrapin and Valley of a Thousand Hills: Campbell, Dhlomo and the 'Brief Epic
‘Epic’ is a controversial category in the study of both oral record and performance and literature in South Africa, although the form has achieved a variety of manifestations. This article examines two early twentieth-century South African poems, Roy Campbell's The Flaming Terrapin (1924) and Herbert Dhlomo's Valley of a Thousand Hills: A Poem (1942), arguing that both can be identified as ‘brief epic’, a form crucial to modernism. While both are…
A cellular universe: Douglas Livingstone's collected poems, a ruthless fidelity
Douglas Livingstone. 2004. A Ruthless Fidelity: the Collected Poems of Douglas Livingstone. Hacksley, Malcolm and Don Maclennan (eds). Johannesburg and Cape Town: Ad Donker. The publication of Douglas Livingstone's collected poems enables readers to see that his skill and control of his craft grew in strength and scope over the nearly forty years of his publishing career. Enriched by the inclusion of many hitherto unpublished poems, A Ruthless Fi…
Re-recuperating the San
How Are These Things Related That Such Deep Union Should Exist between Them All?”: The Textual Integrity of The Story of an African Farm
A commentary on the first revision of the text of The Story of an African Farm for at least a century, by Stephen Gray (2008), is followed by an argument for the integrity of Schreiner's text, based on the contexts which shaped her choices, the novel's multilingual idiom, its historical determinants of material culture and social and ethnic attitude, and some chronological markers and thematic sequences of the story
Re-recuperating the San
Re-recuperating the San
A cellular universe: Douglas Livingstone's collected poems, a ruthless fidelity
Douglas Livingstone. 2004. A Ruthless Fidelity: the Collected Poems of Douglas Livingstone. Hacksley, Malcolm and Don Maclennan (eds). Johannesburg and Cape Town: Ad Donker. The publication of Douglas Livingstone's collected poems enables readers to see that his skill and control of his craft grew in strength and scope over the nearly forty years of his publishing career. Enriched by the inclusion of many hitherto unpublished poems, A Ruthless Fi…
The Flaming Terrapin and Valley of a Thousand Hills: Campbell, Dhlomo and the 'Brief Epic
‘Epic’ is a controversial category in the study of both oral record and performance and literature in South Africa, although the form has achieved a variety of manifestations. This article examines two early twentieth-century South African poems, Roy Campbell's The Flaming Terrapin (1924) and Herbert Dhlomo's Valley of a Thousand Hills: A Poem (1942), arguing that both can be identified as ‘brief epic’, a form crucial to modernism. While both are…
How Are These Things Related That Such Deep Union Should Exist between Them All?”: The Textual Integrity of The Story of an African Farm
A commentary on the first revision of the text of The Story of an African Farm for at least a century, by Stephen Gray (2008), is followed by an argument for the integrity of Schreiner's text, based on the contexts which shaped her choices, the novel's multilingual idiom, its historical determinants of material culture and social and ethnic attitude, and some chronological markers and thematic sequences of the story
Africa South: Viewpoints, 1956-1961
The Cambridge History of South African Literature
South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and experiences of its people. The Cambridge History offers a comprehensive, multi-authored history of South African literature in all eleven official languages (and more minor ones) of the country, produced by a team of over forty international experts, including contributors from all of the…
Notes on Joyce and South Africa: Coincidence and Concordance
These notes offer first a sketch of the significance of James Joyce to a selection of South African writers, from N P van Wyk Louw to Ingrid Winterbach. This is followed by an account of Joyce's allusions to South African in his work up to and including Ulysses. The sequence of allusions in the novel suggests that they follow the plot as it moves in a general sense from politics and alienation to friendship and love. The reading leads to an accou…
Revival and/or Retrieval? A Reading of Corinne Sandwith’s World of Letters
The continuing crisis and militarism of the capitalist world order in the first decades of the twenty-first century recall in certain respects the lead-up to the Second World War. The relevance of the South African alternative press of the 1930s to the politics and culture life of our society post-1994 makes Corinne Sandwith’s just and committed account in World of Letters as much a revival as a retrieval of vigorous debate in what may be a publi…
Mazeppa-Maseppa: Migration of a Romantic motif
Mazeppa (1640–1710), The Ukrainian leader and folk-hero, has a controversial history, and a distinct presence in literature and the graphic arts. Byron’s poem (1819) of the legendary figure’s “wild ride” released a mythical energy which absorbed certain French poets and painters of the 19th century. While the Russian tradition, at least from Pushkin’s Poltava (1828), reworked the historical Ukrainian hetman from a Tsarist and nationalist perspect…
Peter Blum and Italy: ‘Italië het ons aangegryp’
Early readers of the two volumes of verse—Steenbok tot poolsee (“Capricorn to Polar Sea”, 1955) and Enklaves van die lig (“Enclaves of the Light”, 1958)—of Peter Blum (1925–90) recognised his original and distinctive grasp of Afrikaans, although he was not a native speaker, and acknowledged that his work brought to the language a strong sense of European culture and history. Within that Europeanness, the Italian dimension of Blum’s work is explor…
Living in the Moment”: The ‘Bushman’ Presence, Past and Future
State and society’s perhaps guilty recognition of the San in the coat of arms of post-apartheid South Africa was accompanied by a scholarly and creative revival of interest in the San’s poetic and material legacy. Two recent books explore that legacy. Helize van Vuuren’s A Necklace of Springbok Ears, which argues for the parity of Von Wielligh’s Boesmanstories with the work of Bleek and Lloyd, shows that writers, drawing inspiration from !Xam ora…
A Story to Tell
Although Sol Plaatje died in 1932 with many of his hopes for South Africa unfulfilled, he has not been forgotten by his fellow South Africans. In a new edition of his biography of Plaatje, Brian Willan, one of the scholars whose work revived interest in Plaatje in the 1980s, has written the life of a great South African for the new South Africa. He has made use of newly discovered documentary sources and oral memory and given us a nuanced account…
Thomas Pringle: “The Beginning of a Future That Has Not Arrived”
In his recent (2020) book, Matthew Shum offers an important rereading of the life, work and contemporary significance of Thomas Pringle, the Scottish South African poet and activist. The book’s challenge stems from three interrelated lines of energy. First is the author’s tracking of Pringle through the three locations of his activity: Scotland, the Cape, London. Second is the argument that Pringle was not from birth or early conviction the liber…
The Root and Flower of a People's Strength’: On the Bi-centenary of The South African Commercial Advertiser and The South African Journal , 1824–2024
The South African Commercial Advertiser, a weekly, and The South African Journal, a bi-monthly, were published in Cape Town in 1824, until the publisher George Greig and the editors Thomas Pringle and John Fairbairn closed down in the face of the threat of government censorship. In effect, the two overlapped in their coverage and the newspaper and the magazine (or review) are best read together as articulations of the general aims of the triumvir…
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