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Title
Bridging
worlds
:
Zulu
poet
Mazisi
Kunene
, from
epic
authenticity
to
modern
science
Speaker
Wachtel, Albert (Pomona)
Contributors
Rosenkranz
,
Adam
(lecture
organizer)
Subjects
Kunene, Mazisi
Africa
South Africa
Zulu poetry
Literature and science
Coverage-Spatial
South
Africa
;
Africa
Description
Mazisi
Kunene
, the
revolutionary
colleague
of
Nelson
Mandela
, was a
major
academic
voice
about
the
literature
of
Africa
. A
professor
at
UCLA
, he was
Poet
Laureate
of
both
South
Africa
and
Africa
and
perhaps
that
continent's
greatest
poet
. He
wrote
two
major
epics
of the
Zulu
world
. The
first
celebrated
EMPEROR
SHAKA
THE
GREAT
, an
historical
19th
century
warrior
who
united
tribes
and
expanded
the
realm
of
South
Africa
under
Zulu
control
.
Professor
Wachtel
,
whose
wide-ranging
expertise
and
interests
include
the
classical
world
,
James
Joyce
and the
connections
between
literature
and
science
, will
talk
about
Kunene's
other
great
epic
: a
poem
of
Zulu
mythology
entitled
ANTHEM
OF THE
DECADES
,
which
stretches
from the
oral
tradition
Kunene
accessed
to
create
the
epic
to a
bewildering
relationship
to
contemporary
physics
and
cosmology
.
Notes
Introduction - Masilela, Ntongela (Pitzer)
Publisher
Claremont Colleges Library
Date
2012-04-11
Language
eng
Source
Original digital video cassette: 60 minute DVM of lecture by Albert Wachtel
Collection
Claremont
Discourse
Lectures
-
http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/cdl
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