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In the News (Fri 4 Dec 09)

  
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Nortje wrote about being coloured and the paradox of being neither African nor European, while simultaneously having ties to both worlds.
He wrote "about how the miscegenated past articulates itself through (and sometimes despite the denial of) the coloured body (65)." Nortje was neither debilitated nor silenced by his 'shameful origins,' but wrote about those origins in an attempt to construct a place, a belonging, for the coloured community in South Africa.
Her "originality resides not in her refusal to be representative of a particular racial experience, but in her ability to do so elliptically (87)." Indeed, David's intentional neglect of the coloured voice "serves only to draw attention to its absence (98)." Farred's conclusions serve convincingly in his problematization of colouredness in South African writing.
web.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v5/v5i2a10.htm   (667 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Arthur Kenneth Nortje
Kenneth Arthur Nortje's place in South African literature is by no means assured, yet the relatively small body of work published during his lifetime, as well as the posthumously published work has generated substantial critical attention.
Arthur Nortje was born in Oudtshoorn, South Africa.
In Toronto, Nortje “was popping amphetamines and barbiturates, absenting himself from his job and being unusually concerned about his health” (Leitch “Arthur Nortje: 1942-1970” 7).
www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3354   (537 words)

  
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First, however, it should be illuminating to note contrasts between Arthur Nortje's modernist response to city life and the postmodernist reactions of both Horn and Jensma.
The advice to Nortje would probably be uncompromisingly marxist: that Angst is a self-generated `disease' of the Western bourgeois-intellectual and can be cured by means of healthy social engagement; that, ideally, one should aim at a sense of clear-cut social-historical alternatives rather than dwell amid ambiguities of response.
And, as I suggested in the Preface to this study, it is the responsibility of the critic, as opposed to the moral crusader, to attempt to surmount his own preferences and to entertain the various and often contradictory aspects of modern sensibility.
users.iafrica.com /h/ho/hornpet/chapman.htm   (1502 words)

  
 Nortje, Arthur - Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
NORTJE, Arthur (1942-70), South African poet, was born in Oudtshoorn and educated at Paterson High School, Port Elizabeth, where he was taught by the writer Dennis Brutus (Nortje and Brutus were both prize-winners of the Mbari poetry competition in 1962), University College of the Western Cape, and Oxford University, where he received a scholarship.
Failure of relationships, an inability to establish enduring attachments, form the basis of much of Nortje's poetry, which is preoccupied with experiences of alienation and fragmentation.
Exile is frequently cited as an important factor in explaining Nortje's sense of alienation.
people.africadatabase.org /en/profile/15969.html   (513 words)

  
 sundaytimes.co.za :: Home of the Sunday Times :: South Africa's best selling newspaper ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
One of South Africa's most tormented writers-in-exile, the poet Arthur Nortje, has at last been done the justice of full, unexpurgated publication.
Nortje, who committed suicide in Oxford in 1970 after leaving South Africa in 1965, was born of a coloured mother and a Jewish father.
Now academic Dirk Klopper has brought together all of Nortje's poems -- and in some cases even reconstructed them - in a handsome volume of more than 400 pages.
www.sundaytimes.co.za /2001/06/17/books/recomend.asp   (444 words)

  
 Arthur Link — Infoplease.com
The meaning of the moon: the plays of Arthur Laurents.
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938): embracing the fl motherhood experience in love of fl people.(Biography)
Self and community in the poetry of Arthur Nortje: a symptomatic reading.(Critical Essay)
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0758235.html   (178 words)

  
 Sally-Ann Murray
She now has a PhD on 'Magazines, Malls and Theme Parks' from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and lectures in the Programme of English Studies at the same university.
She is the winner of the SANLAM Award for poetry in 1991, and the Arthur Nortje/Vita Award in 1989.
She considers herself to be a 'Durban' poet, since much of her work tackles the pleasures and problems of writing in the uneven spaces that make up identity in this extensive coastal city.
literature.kzn.org.za /lit/56.xml   (694 words)

  
 The Hindu : New boundaries
In its current form, reconciliation is seen as erasing the coloured past and deprives the community of its cultural memory.
The confusion of being a coloured writer was painfully expressed as early as the 1960s when the poet Arthur Nortje wrote his compositions.
Zoe Wicomb, a mixed-race lecturer of literature now based in Scotland, made a name for herself in 1987 with the novel You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town.
www.hindu.com /lr/2004/08/01/stories/2004080100320600.htm   (1893 words)

  
 Unisa Online - arthur nortje papers
The digitisation of the Arthur Nortje Papers is a work in progress.
For an account of how the papers were assembled and donated to the Unisa Library, and the aims of the digitisation project, see digital project below.
Primary and secondary research material are arranged by category to the left and right of the photograph of Arthur Nortje.
www.unisa.ac.za /Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=18324   (89 words)

  
 Port Arthur, city, Canada — Infoplease.com
Planting the municipal ownership idea in Port Arthur, 1875-1914.
"Some alien native land": Arthur Nortje, literary history and the body in exile.
Experience the Prince Arthur Waterfront Hotel and Suites, where the only thing we overlook is the Waterfront.(CORPORATE PROFILE)
www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0917669.html   (91 words)

  
 engl359   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Many of the Protest authors "graduated" from popular journalism to literature, with a special predilection for autobiography.
This course will study several of these autobiographies, among which Mphahlele's and Modisane's are arguably the most pivotal, but we will also read the poetry of Arthur Nortje and a selection of short stories from a variety of writers, some of which will include their journalistic work.
This course, then, will map the trajectory of fl South African literature over this crucial period-one without which contemporary fl letters would be inconceivable, and will explore the links between autobiography, poetry, short stories, and the growth of the apartheid state.
www.williams.edu /admin/registrar/catalog/depts9899/engl/engl359.html   (279 words)

  
 University of Rhode Island Department of English - Home
Assistant Professor Mathew Frankel is presenting a paper based on the Rumowicz course on literature and the sea that he is teaching next semester entitled, "Imaginative Privation and Aesthetic Production in American Literature of the Sea," for the PCA/ACA convention at San Antonio, April 7-10, 2004.
Graduate StudentRebecca Romanow attended the New York Conference on Language and Literature at SUNY Cortland on October 25 where she delivered a paper entitled, "Arthur Nortje: The Body of the Poet in Exile" on the Exile in Postcolonial Literature panel.
We will consider whether these fictions have anything deeper in common beyond their basic topic; how they frame the relationship between knowledge, imagination, and suffering; and the extent to which they constitute a sub-genre of American literature with distinctive features, concerns, and patterns of thought.
www.uri.edu /artsci/eng/english_NEW/News/publicity_October03.html   (2183 words)

  
 UNISA - invigilators online
Prof Pityana to serve a second term as UNISA's Principal: In re-appointing Prof Pityana, Dr Mathews Phosa, the chairperson of UNISA's Council, said the members of Council recognised his leadership in achieving the Council’s objectives of the merger.
The UNISA Library launches the Digitisation of the Arthur Nortje collection
Not only will Arthur Nortje receive the national and international recognition he deserves, but people nationwide will be able to access and enjoy his poetry.
lsa.unisa.ac.za /news/archive/april/vol1/main.html   (167 words)

  
 Kapstadt.org - Online Reiseführer für Kapstadt / Südafrika - Südafrika Reiseführer - Literatur - Anette & Peter ...
In Autopsy Arthur Nortje writes: "The luminous tongue in the fl world / has infinite possibilities no longer." Arthur Nortje felt his country of birth to be a huge prison cell, in which the tongue could no longer say what it wanted to say.
In 1972 the South African writer in exile, Lewis Nkosi, wrote in The Will to Die: "Time, frustration and despair, with their attendant drugs —alcohol and suicide — are taking a toll on South African writers.
Life in the fl townships had surreal features: "awash in the city tide/ or swimming between the rage of bottles, / floating in muck, flotsam and tossed jetsam,/ rockbottom smelling the gutter." (Nortje)
www.kapstadt.org /suedafrika/literatur/anette_peter_horn/nils_burwitz   (3130 words)

  
 Violence Processing in South Africa
Ezekiel Mphahlahle), journalists (Nat Nakasa) and so many others have had to flee "the beloved land." Musicians and singers (Hugh Masakela, Miriam Makeba), poets (Dennis Brutus, Arthur Nortje, Wally Serote) have continued this flight through the sixties after Sharpeville, the seventies with Soweto, and in the eighties' semi-permanent Emergency.
He, Arthur Nortje and Ingrid Jonker are writers who committed suicide in exile.
Wally Serote narrowly escaped assassination in the South Africa Defense Force's 1986 raid on Gaborone, Botswana.
www.processedworld.com /Issues/issue25/25violenceprocessing.html   (6842 words)

  
 New Materials - Georgetown University Library
The vicar of Wakefield : a tale supposed to be written by himself / edited with an introduction and notes by Arthur Friedman.
Anatomy of dark : collected poems of Arthur Nortje / edited by Dirk Klopper
The crucible : a play in four acts / Arthur Miller ; with an introduction by Christopher Bigsby.
www.library.georgetown.edu /newmaterials/archive/apr2006/english.htm   (2890 words)

  
 Neverness - Archives for: October 2004, 25
In Only Night "I write to live/or live to write of life".
Mentions of CP Cavafy, Guy Butler, Arthur Nortje and Douglas Livingstone betray his influences, and probably the influence of UCT MA course director and well-known poet Stephen Watson.
A solid work, I look forward to reading the other, Personae by Sarah Johnson.
www.greenman.co.za /b2evolution/blogs/index.php?m=20041025   (1056 words)

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