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Okonkwo in Harare? Reading the Poem ‘Déjà vu’ by Nhamo Mhiripiri through an Intertextual Lens
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Barbra Chiyedza Manyarara --- Curriculum & Arts Education Department (Senior Lecturer), Faculty of Education, South AfricaNew generations of poets such as Nhamo Mhiripiri offer works that question the contemporary being of Africa by exploring the continuities and disruptions between her pre-colonial past and her postcolonial present. Subtly nuanced, such poetry is often concerned with issues... -
Intertextuality: Decolonising Imperial Narrative in Weep Not, Child
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Addisu Hailu Abebe --- Addis Ababa University, EthiopiaImperial narrative paved the way for the ‘superior white’ and ‘inferior black’ psychology for centuries. This article seeks to determine the impact of intertexts employed in Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o's Weep Not, Child in resisting the imperial discourse. The article identifies... -
Philosophical and ideological intertextual resonances in OK Matsepe and Vonani Bila’s selected poems
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Nelson Ratau --- University of Mpumalanga, South Africa James Seanego --- University of Limpopo, South AfricaThis article explores the philosophical and ideological intertextual resonances between OK Matsepe’s Ge wa ditšhila ka moka re ka o hlaswa and Vonani Bila’s The Toilet Cleaner at OR Tambo Airport. It argues that the two poems share thematic, ideological,...