Questions of identity, belonging and place are crucial issues in
South Africa today. To Speak of this Land explores these issues in
a way that is academically rigorous but refreshingly accessible.
The author's focus is South Africa - spanning Bushman storytelling,
rock painting, and aboriginal land claims; African-Christian
identity formations; Mazisi Kunene's Emperor Shaka the Great;
Ronnie Govender's Cato Manor stories; the poetry of Douglas
Livingstone; and the rap music of Prophets of da City - but he
draws on comparative material from elsewhere in the world, as well
as stressing the 'global' aspects of 'local' identities. 'If this
is your land, where are your stories?' is the question put by a
Native Canadian community to a group of government foresters who
were mapping and claiming jurisdiction over an area of woodlands in
north-west Canada. To speak of this land offers thought-provoking
answers for a South African context to this internationally
challenging question.
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