Nature and Identity in the Poetry of Bart Wolffe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mthatiwa Mthatiwa (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 70 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/reseafrilite.45.4.70 |
| OpenAlex | W1985791098 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The poetry of Bart Wolffe, the self-exiled white Zimbabwean writer, exposes the role of the environment and life experiences in shaping identity. For Wolffe, nature signifies refuge, tranquillity, and harmony; it is a sanctuary, more accommodating than the violent and harsh human society. In this paper, I advance the argument that a reading of Wolffe's poetry shows that he uses nature to construct his identity and belonging and as a means of self-definition, that is, of trying to make sense of himself. But his project of belonging and identity construction in postcolonial Zimbabwe is somehow complicated by his whiteness or positionality
Aesthetics · Art · Identity (music) · Literature · Poetry · Central European Literary Studies · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Philosophy · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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