War poetry of the Angolan/Namibian Border War: re-membering poetic bodies through textual limbs

dc.contributor.authorGenis, Gerhard
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-26T08:10:16Z
dc.date.available2024-07-26T08:10:16Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis article argues for a conceptualisation of war poetry as a corporeal re-membering that encapsulates trauma as literary theme through the ‘poetic bodies’ construct. The ‘poetic bodies’ concept implies that literary language, the physical and psychological body, and the environment interact to create ontological meaning through poetry. Therefore, the discussion takes place within a ‘poetic bodies’ epistemological framework, as it resonates with a South African Defence Force soldier’s (Dawid) poetry of the Angolan/Namibian Border War (1966–1989) within the larger body of Border War poetry. The article also indicates how Dawid’s biographical memory, as captured in a life story is manifested in his poetic expression of psychological re-membering and ‘sense-making’ of wartime experience. Therefore, it reveals how his poems or ‘poetic bodies’ re-member war through word-traces and symbols of physical and psychological trauma, which was triggered by environmental stressors during the Angolan/Namibian Border War.en_US
dc.description.departmentHumanities Educationen_US
dc.description.librarianhj2024en_US
dc.description.sdgSDG-04:Quality Educationen_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcwr20en_US
dc.identifier.citationGerhard Genis & Melanie Moen (2024) War Poetry of the Angolan/ Namibian Border War: Re-membering Poetic Bodies through Textual Limbs, Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 36:1, 24-39, DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2024.2325766.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1013-929X (print)
dc.identifier.issn2159-9130 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/1013929X.2024.2325766
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/97263
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.rights© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License.en_US
dc.subjectPost-traumatic stressen_US
dc.subjectAngolan/Namibian Border War poetryen_US
dc.subjectWar literatureen_US
dc.subjectPoetic bodiesen_US
dc.subjectSDG-04: Quality educationen_US
dc.titleWar poetry of the Angolan/Namibian Border War: re-membering poetic bodies through textual limbsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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