Bloke of All Ages

Persepectives on Bloke Modisane

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvBloke Modisane,Shane Graham,Colette Guldimann,Liz Gunner,Vusumuzi R Kumalo,Benjamin N Lawrance,Bafana Radebe,Mark Sanders,Molebogeng Sebesho,Siyabonga Njica,Siphiwo Mahala

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Bloke of All Ages is an expansive reflection that offers refreshing new insights into the works of one of South Africa's most important literary, intellectual and artistic figures, William Bloke Modisane. Born in Sophiatown, Modisane was a remarkable author, playwright and actor, and a leading member of the DRUM generation in the 1950s. The contributors trace Modisane's intellectual and cultural journey from his early years in South Africa to his exile in the United Kingdom, East Africa, North America, Italy, the German Democratic Republic, and the Federal Republic of Germany. Through a comprehensive and diverse exploration of Modisane's body of work, they offer critical literary essays on his early short stories, his autobiography Blame Me on History, his journalism as well as his writings while in exile. The volume also includes little-known and previously unpublished essays by Modisane, written during his time in exile. Bloke of All Ages highlights the relevance and resilience of Modisane's intellectual and cultural contribution by situating his work in the broader historic context of South African creative arts.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-01
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagWits University Press
ISBN9781776149759

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Foreword by David AttwellIntroduction – Siyabonga Njica and Siphiwo MahalaPart I: Johannesburg, Drum and the Making of a Modern IntellectualChapter 1 Restless Spaces in Modisane’s Johannesburg – Liz GunnerChapter 2 Modisane at Marienbad: Cinema, Time, and Memory in Blame Me on History – Mark SandersChapter 3 Recovering the ‘Humour and Idiom of Damon Runyon’ in Bloke Modisane’s Writing for Drum Magazine – Colette GuldimannChapter 4 Blame the Present on History? The Depiction of South African Townships and the Façade of Democracy – Molebogeng SebeshoChapter 5 Black Ontology in Modisane’s Blame Me on History – Bafana RadebePart II: Exilic Routes and Transnational NetworksChapter 6 ‘Corns on my sitters’: Bloke Modisane’s Dramatic Exit and the Exilic Archive of South Africa – Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. KumaloChapter 7 Transatlantic Artistic and Intellectual Bromance: The Bloke Modisane and Langston Hughes Connection – Siphiwo MahalaChapter 8 Lang and Bloke: Transnational Lines of Flight – Shane GrahamChapter 9 Bloke Modisane’s Cold War Intellectual Itineraries in East Africa – Siyabonga NjicaPart III: Bloke Modisane in His Own WordsChapter 10 The Kwela – Jazz of the Locations – Bloke ModisaneChapter 11 Short Story Writing in Black South Africa – Bloke ModisaneChapter 12 Culture in Crisis – Bloke ModisaneChapter 13 Repatriate Me – Bloke ModisaneAcknowledgementsContributorsIndex