Indigenous South African poetry as conduits of history : epi-poetics - a pedagogy of memory

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dc.contributor.author Genis, Gerhard
dc.date.accessioned 2020-09-07T10:21:06Z
dc.date.available 2020-09-07T10:21:06Z
dc.date.issued 2019-12
dc.description.abstract This conceptual article argues that a pedagogy of poetic memory, or epipoetics, can be used to remember and ‘re-member’ the past in the present in the history classroom. Epi-poetics as a theory encapsulates the dynamic interplay of language (including indigenous poetry), the body (both physical and psychological remembering of the past) and the socio-cultural and physical environments in memory construction. As a pedagogy, epi-poetics allows for the indigenisation of the curriculum by tapping into Indigenous Knowledge constructs, specifically indigenous poetry and how it relates to memory, trauma and history. The indigenous poetry is both a source of memory, and, therefore history, and a fount and font of inter-generational experience and trauma. en_ZA
dc.description.department Humanities Education en_ZA
dc.description.librarian pm2020 en_ZA
dc.description.uri http://sashtw.org.za/?page_id=1763 en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Genis, G. 2019, 'Indigenous South African poetry as conduits of history: epi-poetics - a pedagogy of memory', Yesterday and Today, no. 22, pp. 60-87. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 2223-0386 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 2309-9003 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.17159/ 2223-0386/2019/n22a4
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76067
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher South African Society for History Teaching en_ZA
dc.rights This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. en_ZA
dc.subject Epi-poetics en_ZA
dc.subject Inter-generational memory en_ZA
dc.subject Pedagogy en_ZA
dc.subject History en_ZA
dc.subject Indigenous poetry en_ZA
dc.subject Embodiment en_ZA
dc.subject Remembrance en_ZA
dc.title Indigenous South African poetry as conduits of history : epi-poetics - a pedagogy of memory en_ZA
dc.type Article en_ZA


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