Writing Namibia: Literature in Transitionedited by Sarala Krishnamurthy and Helen Vale.

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Foreword / Andre du Pisani -- Introduction : setting the context / Sarala Krishnamurthy and Helen Vale -- The shifting grounds of emancipation : from the anti-colonial struggle to a critique of post-colonial society / Henning Melber -- Gathering scattered archives / Margie Orford -- Conceptualising national transition : Namibian women's autobiographies about the liberation struggle / Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua -- Emplotting nationalism : comparing Sam Nujoma's Where others wavered and Joseph Diescho's Born of the sun / Patrick Colm Hogan -- The forgotten child of Namibia : an analysis of Misheke Matongo's autobiography / Jason Owens and Sarala Krishnamurthy -- Otjiherero literature in transition from the oral to the written word / Alfeus Tjijoro -- Gender stereotypes in Oshiwambo orature / Petrus Mbenzi -- Who speaks at spoken word? Performance poetry in Namibia / Hugh Ellis and Don Stevenson -- 'Call of the Witpenssuikerbekkie' : landscape as symbol in contemporary Namibian poetry / Sarala Krishnamurthy -- Namibian poetry since independence : a poet's perspective / Keamogetsi Joseph Molapong interviewed by Helen Vale -- Representing Namibian drama (1985-2000) : Frederick Philander / Laurinda Olivier-Sampson -- When applied theatre is no rehearsal for the revolution / Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja -- The development in theatre since independence : a director's perspective / Sandy Rudd interviewed by Helen Vale -- Reading Namibian film / Hans-Christian Mahnke -- The Namibian novel : reflections of an author / Brian Harlech-Jones -- Power at the margins : black female agency in two Namibian novels / Netta Kornberg -- Autotelic violence : an analysis of selected Namibian short stories in Elizabeth |Khaxas' We must choose life / Juliet S. Pasi and Nelson Mlambo -- 'Keeping a pet Bushman alive' : Piet van Rooyen's Namibian oeuvre / Helize van Vuuren -- Will there be written literature in Ju|'hoansi, a Khoesan language of Namibia? / Kerry Jones and Megan Biesele -- Multilingual children's books in an independent Namibia : the emergence of a new literature / Andree-Jeanne Tötemeyer -- When the colonised imperialists go post-colonial : Namibian-German literature since independence / Sylvia Schlettwein -- Books, words and truth in Namibia : the contribution of New Namibia Books (1990-2005) / Jane Katjavivi.

Writing Namibia: Literature in Transition is a cornucopia of extraordinary and fascinating material which will be a rich resource for students, teachers and readers interested in Namibia. The text is wide ranging, defining literature in its broadest terms. In its multifaceted approach, the book covers many genres traditionally outside academic literary discourse and debate. The 22 chapters cover literature of all categories in Namibia since independence: written and performance poetry, praise poetry, Oshiwambo orature, drama, novels, autobiography, women's writing, subaltern studies, literature in German, Ju'hoansi and Otjiherero, children's literature, Afrikaans fiction, story-telling through film, publishing, and the interface between literature and society. The inclusive approach is the book's strength as it allows a wide range of subjects to be addressed, including those around gender, race and orature which have been conventionally silenced.

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