Ingrid Jonker - Poet Under Apartheid

Klappentext Nelson Mandela brought the poetry of Ingrid Jonker to the attention of South Africa and the wider world when he read her poem "Die kind" (The Child) at the opening of South Africa's first democratic parliament on May 24! 1994. Zusammenfassung Illuminates the brief and dramatic life of the author, who created a literary oeuvre? - as searing in its intensity as it is brief? - before taking her own life at the age of thirty-one. This book tells her story in the political and cultural context of her time, and provides sensitive insights into her poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Louise Viljoen
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2013
• EAN: 9780821420485
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2048-5
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Ohio Short Histories of Africa
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies