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

dc.contributor.authorGenis, Gerhard
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-07T10:21:06Z
dc.date.available2020-09-07T10:21:06Z
dc.date.issued2019-12
dc.description.abstractThis 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.departmentHumanities Educationen_ZA
dc.description.librarianpm2020en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://sashtw.org.za/?page_id=1763en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationGenis, 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.issn2223-0386 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2309-9003 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.17159/ 2223-0386/2019/n22a4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/76067
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSouth African Society for History Teachingen_ZA
dc.rightsThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.en_ZA
dc.subjectEpi-poeticsen_ZA
dc.subjectInter-generational memoryen_ZA
dc.subjectPedagogyen_ZA
dc.subjectHistoryen_ZA
dc.subjectIndigenous poetryen_ZA
dc.subjectEmbodimenten_ZA
dc.subjectRemembranceen_ZA
dc.titleIndigenous South African poetry as conduits of history : epi-poetics - a pedagogy of memoryen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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