The essays in this collection were crafted in celebration of the
centenaries, in 2019, of Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso
Cyril Lincoln Nyembezi and Es'kia Mphahlele, all of whom were born
in 1919. All four centenarians lived rich and diverse lives across
several continents. In the years following the Second World War
they produced more than half a century of foundational creative
writing and literary criticism, and made stellar contributions to
institutions and repertoires of African and black arts and letters
in South Africa and internationally. As a result, their oeuvres
present multifaceted engagements and generative insights into a
wide range of issues, including precolonial existence, colonialism,
empire, race, culture, identity, class, the language question,
tradition, modernity, exile, Pan-Africanism, and decolonisation.
The range of the centenarians' imaginations, critical analyses and
social interventions spanned disciplinary divides. This volume, in
the same spirit, draws on approaches that are equally
transdisciplinary. Two aims thread through the contributors'
reflections on the complexities of black existence and of
intellectual and cultural life in the twentieth century. The first
is the exploration of some of the centenarians' key texts and
cultural projects that shaped their legacies. In doing so, the
volume contributors trace a number of divergent intellectual and
aesthetic lineages in their works and organisational activities.
The second aim is a consideration of the ways in which these
foundational writers' legacies continue to resonate today,
confirming their status as crucial contributors to modern African
and diasporic black arts and letters.
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