Black music and pan-African solidarity in Keorapetse Kgositsile’s poetry

Phalafala, Uhuru Portia

doi:10.1080/17533171.2017.1358934

Safundi

2017

DOI: 10.1080/17533171.2017.1358934

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Black music and pan-African solidarity in Keorapetse Kgositsile’s poetry

Uhuru Portia Phalafala

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Translation and Untranslatability in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus and Keorapetse Kgositsile

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2020

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This paper traces aspects of the history of the trope of translation, familiar both in critical works that address South African literature and in South African literary texts, in relation to two poems by the black South African poets, Dennis Brutus and Keorapetse Kgositsile. It considers their insinuation of untranslated or translated Afrikaans into an English text as a radical poetic strategy that both reinforces and disrupts established paradigms of the trope of translation. The paper focuses on the poems: "Here of the Things I Mark," by Dennis Brutus, published in 1978 at the height of apartheid rule and the post-apartheid poem, "No Serenity Here" by Keorapetse Kgositsile, published in 2009. I consider the ways in which Brutus both confirms and subverts the identification of Afrikaans as the language of apartheid and suggest that his use of Afrikaans constitutes a practice of resistance that breaches the rigid segregations enforced by apartheid and exposes their permeability. In a close reading of Kgositsile's "No Serenity Here," I relate to his use of the trope of translation and of untranslated Afrikaans within the poem as a radical critique both of European colonization and of post-apartheid South Africa, still unliberated from the perverse legacies of that colonization. In parsing the anomalies of Brutus and Kgositsile's use of Afrikaans in these poems, I map possible future directions for the historiography of the trope of translation in South African poetics.

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Translation and Untranslatability in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus and Keorapetse Kgositsile

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2020

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South Africa and Zimbabwe

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2018

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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Black music and pan-African solidarity in Keorapetse Kgositsile’s poetry

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Translation and Untranslatability in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus and Keorapetse Kgositsile

Translation and Untranslatability in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus and Keorapetse Kgositsile

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