Mxolisi Nyezwa's Poetry of No Sure Place

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3624417
AutoresTom Penfold (University of Johannesburg, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume42
Fascículo3
Páginas504-529
Data de publicação2016-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Dynamics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0253-3952 • E-ISSN: 1940-7874
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02533952.2016.1237974
OpenAlexW2556798062
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas12

A change in direction of the journal New Coin during the 1990s saw the emergence of a diverse group of poets who had previously struggled for publication. This article recognises this often overlooked collective and argues that they quickly established their own style of “Poetry of No Sure Place”, which expresses a malaise of sadness within South Africa that is popularly felt but rarely articulated. Focusing on three collections of poetry by Mxolisi Nyezwa, I show how this group’s work rests on a permanent – and possibly worsening – sense of imbalance. The article explores how Nyezwa attempts to reconcile a felt public and private need to write, struggles to find a source of connection and questions the permanence of social change in South Africa. Nyezwa epitomises the marginalisation, apprehension and uncertainty of New Coin’s Poetry of No Sure Place

Aesthetics · Apprehension · Art · Epistemology · Literature · Malaise · Poetry · Sadness · Sense of place · Social science · Sociology · African history and culture studies · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · South African History and Culture