Krishnamurthy: Writing Namibia - Coming of Age

Sarala Krishnamurthy, Nelson Mlambo, Sarala Krishnamurthy, Nelson Mlambo, Helen Vale, Sarala Krishnamurthy, Nelson Mlambo, Helen Vale

• Publisher: Basler Afrika Bibliographien
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9783906927411
• eBook ISBN: 9783906927428
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

A rich collection of captivating and remarkable chapters, Writing Namibia Coming of Age presents research of senior academics as well as emerging scholars from Namibia. The book includes wide ranging topics in literature written in English and other Namibian languages, such as German, Afrikaans and Oshiwambo. Almost thirty years after independence, Namibia literature has come of age with new writers experimenting with different genres and varied aspects of literature. As an aesthetic object and social phenomenon, Namibian literature still fulfils the function of social conscience and as new writers emerge, there is ample demonstration that, pluri-vocal as they are, Namibian literary texts relate in a complex manner to the socio-historical trends shaping the country. The Namibian literary-critical tradition continues to paint some versions of Namibia and what we find in this new and highly welcome volume is a canvas of rich voices and perspectives that demonstrate an intricate diversity in terms of culture, language, and themes.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Mindscapes: The Story of Namibia in Art and Stone
• Dealing with Trauma and the Limits to Liberation: Ex-Detainees Speaking Out
• Coming of Age Transnationally – Life Stories of Namibian Child Refugees. A Literature Review
• Whiteness, Power and Privilege? A Critique of a Western Account of the Herero and Nama Genocide in Horst Drechsler’s Let Us Die Fighting
• Queering the Archive: African Praxis in Performative Writing
• Afrikaans Dramatist George Weideman’s Appeal for Freedom
• Crimes in the Colony. Reading Giselher W. Hoffmann’s Novel Diamantenfieber (2006) as a Metaphor of German-Namibian History
• Oral Traditions in German-Namibian Literature. The Südwester Geschichten by Ernst Rudolf Scherz
• Nayi tye ngaa waka – Now it is Obvious: The Significance of Oshiwambo Wedding Songs in the 21st Century
• Herero-Nama Genocide as Historical Fiction: A New Historical Analysis of Mama Namibia, The Scattering, and The Lie of the Land
• Ecocriticism and Verse: Insights from Tales of the rainbow: A collection of poems in English by Julia Amukoshi and A true me in words: An anthology of poems by Annelie Nghikembwa
• Exploring Herero Genocide Survivor Narratives
• Authoring the “Unspeakables”, Moralising the Public Sphere: A Literary Examination of Social Commitment and the Artistic Vision in Sifiso Nyathi’s OEuvre
• Catharsis in Namibian Women’s Autobiography
• Representations of Post-Independence Leadership in Selected Namibian Poetry (1990–2020)
• Interrogating the Narrative “#Men Are Trash” in Namibian Women’s Spoken Poetry with a Focus on Gender-Based Violence
• POEMS
• List of Contributors
• Back cover