Poetic bodies : weavings of bodies, languages and environments in war poetry by S.E.K. Mqhayi
dc.contributor.author | Genis, Gerhard | |
dc.contributor.email | gerhard.genis@up.ac.za | en_ZA |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-01T13:02:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-04-01T13:02:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.description.abstract | The creation of “poetic bodies”refers to the embodiment of poetic experiencethroughan eclectic theoretical and methodological conceptualisation. This poetic embodiment allows for there-memberingandexperiencing ofpoetictexts in general, and specifically,indigenous South Africanpoetry in the classroom. At its core is the hauntingof memory in poetic texts: the inter-generational experiencing of poetry is embodied in the students’responses to literature. Conjuring these poetic bodiescomprises three acts of meaning-making that are woven together to create a uniqueexperienceand understandingof poetry: the Bodily, which refers to the figurative devices and images in poetry; the InnerBodily, whichrelates to intergenerational memory construction; and the Outer Bodily, which encompasses social, cultural and historical contexts.In South Africa, theprocess of poetic embodiment is characterised by a strong sense of loss due to the country’scolonial and apartheid past. Theweavingof the different levels of re-memberingand experiencingin indigenous South African poetry is illustrated in the war poetry of S.E.K. Mqhayi (1875–1945). His poems are used as a case study to illustrate how poetic bodiesmay be re-membered or reconstructedas a literary-theoretical approach to facilitate understandingand experiencingpoetry with marked traces of loss. | en_ZA |
dc.description.department | Humanities Education | en_ZA |
dc.description.librarian | pm2021 | en_ZA |
dc.description.uri | https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/EAC | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Genis, G. 2020, 'Poetic bodies : weavings of bodies, languages and environments in war poetry by S.E.K. Mqhayi', Education as Change, vol. 24, art. 7961, pp. 1-20. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.issn | 1947-9417 (online) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1682-3206 (print) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.25159/1947-9417/7961 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79166 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | University of Johannesburg and Unisa Press | en_ZA |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2020. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Poetic bodies | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Embodiment | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Re-membering | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Intergenerational trauma | en_ZA |
dc.subject | War poetry | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Indigenous poetry | en_ZA |
dc.subject | S.E.K. Mqhayi (1875–1945) | en_ZA |
dc.title | Poetic bodies : weavings of bodies, languages and environments in war poetry by S.E.K. Mqhayi | en_ZA |
dc.type | Article | en_ZA |