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Sol Plaatje's Mhudi - History, criticism, celebration (Hardcover)
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International scholars explore one of the most important
postcolonial novels of African literature. Joint winner of Best
Non-Fiction Biography, Humanities and Social Sciences Awards 2020
Sol Plaatje's Mhudi is the first full-length novel in English to
have been written by a black South African and is widely regarded
as one of Africa's most important literary works. Drawing upon both
oral and literary traditions, Plaatje uses the form of the
historical novel, and romance genre, to explore the 19th-century
dispossession of his people, to provide a novel black perspective
on their history. It is a book that speaks to present-day concerns,
to do with land, language, history and decolonisation. Today the
novel has iconic status, not only in South Africa, but worldwide -
it has been translated into a number of languages - and its impact
on other writers has been profound. The novelist Bessie Head
described it as "more than a classic; there is just no other book
on earth like it. All the stature and grandeur of the author are in
it." A century after its writing in London in 1920 [it was
published in South Africa in 1930, for reasons explained in the
book], and at a time of intellectual ferment, with debates on
decolonisation to the fore, in popular culture as much as in the
academy, this book celebrates Mhudi's place in African literature,
reviews its critical reception, and offers fresh perspectives. The
contributors discuss Mhudis genesis, writing and publication; its
reception by literary critics from the 1930s to thepresent; Mhudi
as a feminist novel; Mhudis use of oral tradition; issues of
translation; Mhudi in the context of African literature and
history, and the decolonisation of the curriculum. An authoritative
listing of all editions of Mhudi, translations as well as in
English completes the book. SABATA MOKAE is a novelist and lecturer
in creative writing at Sol Plaatje University, Kimberley, and the
author of The Story of Sol T. Plaatje (2010). BRIAN WILLAN is
Senior Research Fellow at Rhodes University, Extraordinary
Professor at Sol Plaatje and North West Universities. He is the
author of Sol Plaatje: a life of Solomon Tshekisho
Plaatje,1876-1932 (2018), and co-editor (with Janet Remmington and
Bheki Peterson) of Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa: Past
and Present (2016). Africa: Jacana
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