Essay
Shifting Fields: Imagining Literary Renewal in Itiner rio and Drum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250811 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Helgesson (0000-0002-2222-1037, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 206-226 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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/ral.2007.38.2.206 |
| OpenAlex | W1995093687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 10 |
This article looks at the beginnings of anti-apartheid/anticolonial literary cultures in Johannesburg and Maputo (then Lourenco Marques) after the Second World War. It pays specific attention to the ways in which they attempted to harness aesthetics of newness. By focusing on the influential journals Drum (1951–) and Itinerario (1941–1955), I argue that both journals tapped into transnational intellectual currents such as Harlem Renaissance writing, but that the discrete discursive networks of English and Portuguese contributed to a differentiation of their aesthetic approaches. Itinerario acted out an avantgarde-like resistance to bourgeois/colonial culture. Drum was market-driven and achieved in its early phase a compromise between a racially circumscribed mass-cultural appeal and the literate ideals of mission-educated South African blacks. These differences can then be factored into an analysis of persistent differences between the literatures of South Africa and Mozambique
Aesthetics · Art · Bourgeoisie · Colonialism · Compromise · Drum · Literature · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Resistance (ecology) · Social science · Sociology · African history and culture studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture
Bibliography of Books and Articles Published in English on Colonialism and Imperialism in 2007
Inventing Africa in the Twentieth Century
Imraan Coovadia’s Metonymic Aesthetics and the Idea of Newness in the South African Cultural Imaginary
Migrant Forms
South Africa
From rupture to revolution
Reading the paratext
Sophiatown aslieu de mémoire
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2021 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |