a.k.a. Breyten Breytenbach

Critical Approaches to his Writings and Paintings

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Volume Editors:
Judith Lütge Coullie
and
J.U. Jacobs
The essays in this volume hold up for scrutiny, in diverse ways, many facets of the artistic output of Breyten Breytenbach, the Afrikaans poet who first became a public figure in apartheid South Africa – his poetry, his fictional and non-fictional prose, his plays, and his painting and drawing. The approaches adopted by the authors of the essays range from the largely theoretical to the more popular forms of the interview and the review.
Collectively, they represent a kaleidoscope of approaches, viewpoints and foci; their various critical and analytical colorations make up a timely statement about the centrality of this important artist’s creativity, engagement, ‘exile’ and belongness to a land once impacting under its own contradictions and now experiencing an efflorescence that still harbours the paradoxes that Breytenbach’s protean craft uncompromisingly anatomizes.

Contributors are: Ampie Coetzee, J.M. Coetzee, Judith Lütge Coullie, Ileana Dimitriu, J.U. Jacobs, Tim Trengove, Jones, Erhard Reckwitz, Sandra Saayman, Marilet Sienaert, Lisbe Smuts, Louise Viljoen, Andries Visagie.
Copyright Year:
2004
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JUDITH LÜTGE COULLIE is Professor of English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
J.U. JACOBS is a member of the English Department at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.
"The editors and publishers are to be commended on a fine book which should prove a valuable addition to any library or collection." - in: NELM News, Vol. 45 (December 2006)
"…a unique and timely overview…" - in: Research in African Literatures, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Fall 2006)
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Introduction – In Other Words: Breyten Breytenbach
1. Breytenbach and His Fathers: The Early Poetry
— Louise Viljoen
2. Poetry as the Presentation of a Representation
— Ampie Coetzee
3. “‘I’ is a Complex Place”: Transforming and Disseminating
the Subject in the Poetry
— Lisbé Smuts
4. Breyten Breytenbach and the Reader in the Mirror
— J. M. Coetzee
5. Broken Mirror: The Prison Memoirs
— Erhard Reckwitz
6. Carnivalesque Rituals of Renewal: The True Confessions
of an Albino Terrorist and The Man Died
— Ileana Dimitriu
7. Writing Africa
— J. U. Jacobs
8. From Dream to Waking and Back Again: An A–Z Guide
to the Critical Writing
— Judith Lütge Coullie
9. The I of the Beholder: Identity and Place in the Art and Writing
— Marilet Sienaert
10. A Detail: The Butterfly in “The Thieves and the Word”
from All One Horse
— Sandra Saayman
11. Dancing the Dog: Paintings and Other Pornographics
— Marilet Sienaert
12. Dog Heart: Heartland, Border Area
and the Politics of Remembering
— Tim Trengove Jones
13. Breytenbach and the Masculine Subject
— Andries Visagie
14. Playing the Poet in Boklied and Die Toneelstuk
— Louise Viljoen
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