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Xhosa Oral Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Jeff Opland
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983-12-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of the Xhosa oral poetry tradition.
Xhosa Poets and Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Jeff Opland
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: New Africa Books

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Xhosa oral poetry has defied the threats to its integrity over two centuries, to take its place in a free South Africa. This volume establishes the background t
Towards an African Literature
Language: en
Pages: 130
Authors: A. C. Jordan
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1973-01-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Explores the evolution of Xhosa literature.
Xhosa Literature
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jeff Opland
Categories: Xhosa literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press

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Xhosa Literature consists of fourteen essays addressing Xhosa literature in three media-the spoken word, newspapers, and books. Literary critics tend to focus o
The Xhosa Ntsomi
Language: en
Pages: 474
Authors: Harold Scheub
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1975 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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"The Xhosa ntsomi (sing. intsomi; pl. iintsomi) is a performing art which has, as its dynamic mainspring, a core-cliché (a song, chant, or saying) which is, du