Siphiwo Mahala

Siphiwo Mahala

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The House of Truth & Bloke and His American Bantu

Siphiwo Mahala

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68 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 51min.
Two plays that follow the writers Can Themba, Bloke Modisane and Langston Hughes based in the DRUM era of 1950s Johannesburg.Siphiwo Mahala delves into the lives of iconic figures from South Africa’s tumultuous past in this remarkable collection of plays. The House of Truth is a gripping portrait of the complex journalist and playwright Can Themba. This one-man play weaves together elements of Themba’s life and career, recreating the excitment and pathos of the DRUM era and Sophiatown under apartheid. Themba is brought to life as an ordinary person with human flaws and attributes that both tragic and inspirational. In Bloke and His American Bantu, Mahala brings to life the extraordinary friendship between exiled writer Bloke Modisane and American poet Langston Hughes. Through a reimagined correspondence, the two-person play deftly explores how a simple friendship blossomed into a catalyst for international solidarity and cultural exchange between South Africa and Black America. Both plays are set against backdrops of oppression and explore themes of identity, creativity and resilience. Mahala’s masterful storytelling illuminates the human spirit’s enduring power to inspire and uplift, even in the darkest of times.Foreword: ‘They Cannot Destroy a People’s Experience’ by Shane Graham Acknowledgements Introduction The House of Truth Press clippings Glossary and translations Notes on staging The House of Truth: The Playscript Bloke and His American Bantu Press clippings Glossary and translations Notes on staging Bloke and His American Bantu: The Playscript
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Affiche du document Publishing from the South

Publishing from the South

Sarah Nuttall

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183 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h17min.
This multi-authored volume offers a deep dive into the history, sociology, and politics of the oldest South African university press.In 2022 Wits University Press marked its centenary, making it the oldest university press in sub-Saharan Africa. While in part modelled on scholarly publishers from the global North, it has had to contend with the constraints of working under global South conditions: marginalisation within the university, budgetary limitations, small local markets, unequal access to international distribution and sales channels, and the privileging of English language publishing over indigenous languages. This volume showcases the history and achievements of the Press: from documenting its evolution through book covers and giving credence to some of the leading black intellectuals and writers of the early 20th century and the success of their works in spite of their authors’ racial marginalisation, to the role of women both in publishing and in the spaces afforded to women’s writing on the Press’s list. The collection concludes with author essays on the politics and experiences of choosing and working with a global South publisher. The collection shows the strategies deployed by the Press to professionalise Southern knowledge making and how local university presses support the scholarly mission of their universities for local and global audiences.Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Experiments in Writing the History of a University Press – Sarah Nuttall and Isabel Hofmeyr Part 1 Covers and Contracts Chapter 1 Uncovered: One Hundred Years of Book Covers – Kirsten Perkins and Corina van der Spoel Chapter 2 Relations, Contracts, and Books at Wits University Press: 1922–1962 – Jonathan Klaaren Part 2 Southern Contradictions and Black Contributors Chapter 3 B. W. Vilakazi, Ithongo Lokwazi: The Muse of Knowledge – Hlonipha Mokoena Chapter 4 ‘The Hidden Matters of the Black People’: John Henderson Soga and The South-Eastern Bantu – Natasha Erlank Chapter 5 Clement M. Doke and the Bantu Treasury: Laying Aesthetic Foundations for Modern African Literature – Innocentia Mhlambi Chapter 6 Paratextual Framings of the isiXhosa Volumes in the African Treasury Series – Athambile Masola and Sanele kaNtshingana Chapter 7 African Studies, a Journal on a Fault Line – Isabel Hofmeyr Chapter 8 Palaeosciences through Wits University Press Publications – Amanda Esterhuysen Part 3 Women in the House Chapter 9 Writing While Female: Merit, Market and Gatekeeping in Academic Publishing – Shireen Hassim Chapter 10 Writing the (Female) Biography of a Publishing House – Elizabeth le Roux Chapter 11 ‘That Body of [not only] Men’: Margaret Hutchings’ History of Wits University Press – Veronica Klipp Part 4 Reading Wits Press Through Our Books Chapter 12 Book Paradise: Publishing Regarding Muslims and Surfacing with Wits University Press – Gabeba Baderoon Chapter 13 On Academic Inclusion, or A Story of Three Books – Srila Roy Chapter 14 Experiments in Publishing: A Journey with Academic, Commercial, Independent and Academic Publishers – Siphiwo Mahala Chapter 15 The Psychologist Who had a Lingering Hope of Being a Fiction Writer: Noel Chabani Manganyi – Kopano Ratele Chapter 16 Translated Authorship and Language Futures – Achille Mbembe Afterword: Time-Travelling in the Archive – Ivan Vladislavić Contributors Index
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Can Themba

Siphiwo Mahala

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166 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h04min.
Mahala's biography views the life and writing of Can Themba (1924–1967), an iconic figure of the South African literary world and Drum journalist who died in exile.This rich and absorbing biography of Can Themba, iconic Drum-era journalist and writer, is the definitive history of a larger-than-life man who died too young. Siphiwo Mahala's intensive and often fresh research features unprecedented archival access and interviews with Themba's surviving colleagues and family. Mahala’s biography takes a critical historical approach to Themba’s life and writing, giving a picture of the whole man, from his early beginnings in Marabastad to his sombre end in exile in Swaziland. The better-known elements of his life – his political views, passion for teaching and mentoring, family life and his drinking – are woven together with an examination of his literary influences and the impact of his own writing (especially his famous short story 'The Suit') on modern African writers in turn. Mahala, a master storyteller, deftly follows the threads of Themba's dynamic life, showcasing his intellectual acumen, scholarly aptitude and wit, along with his flaws, contradictions and heartbreaks, against a backdrop of the sparkle and pathos of Sophiatown of the 1950s. Can Themba’s successes and failures as well as his triumphs and tribulations reverberate on the pages of this long-awaited biography. The result is an authoritative and entertaining account of an often misunderstood figure in South Africa's literary canon.Introduction Part I: Death and Birth of a Scribe Chapter 1 A Knock on the Door Chapter 2 The Poet Laureate of Fort Hare Chapter 3 The Teacher of Life and Letters Chapter 4 From Marabastad to Sophiatown and beyond Part II: Living Fast, Dying Young Chapter 5 The Drum Seduction Chapter 6 Occasions for Loving Chapter 7 Drumming Up a Storm Chapter 8 Destruction and Demise Chapter 9 The Road to Swaziland: A Kind of Suicide Part III: The ‘Intellectual Tsotsi’: The Identities, Politics and Intellectual Legacy of Can Themba Chapter 10 Black Englishman or Detribalised African? A Quest for Shared Identities Chapter 11 A Politico in a Poet Chapter 12 The People’s Intellectual Part IV: Dances with Texts: the Writings of Can Themba Chapter 13 No Ordinary Storyteller Chapter 14 Intertextuality and the Making of Mr Shakespeare Chapter 15 ‘The Suit’ For All Seasons Part V: The Immortality of Can Themba Chapter 16 Re-Membering the Fragments Postscript: The Three Burials of Can Themba Bibliography Index
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