Poetic bodies : weavings of bodies, languages and environments in war poetry by S.E.K. Mqhayi

dc.contributor.authorGenis, Gerhard
dc.contributor.emailgerhard.genis@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-01T13:02:34Z
dc.date.available2021-04-01T13:02:34Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThe 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.departmentHumanities Educationen_ZA
dc.description.librarianpm2021en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://upjournals.co.za/index.php/EACen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationGenis, 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.issn1947-9417 (online)
dc.identifier.issn1682-3206 (print)
dc.identifier.other10.25159/1947-9417/7961
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/79166
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Johannesburg and Unisa Pressen_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.subjectPoetic bodiesen_ZA
dc.subjectEmbodimenten_ZA
dc.subjectRe-memberingen_ZA
dc.subjectIntergenerational traumaen_ZA
dc.subjectWar poetryen_ZA
dc.subjectIndigenous poetryen_ZA
dc.subjectS.E.K. Mqhayi (1875–1945)en_ZA
dc.titlePoetic bodies : weavings of bodies, languages and environments in war poetry by S.E.K. Mqhayien_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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