Abstract
Book Review: Adam Schwatzman (ed): <i>Ten South African Poets</i> and <i>Opening Spaces: An anthology of Contemporary African Women's Writing</i>
Highlights
In his choice of poets, Schwartzman follows a scrupulous balance, with three "black", five "white" and two "coloured" authors, to employ the Apartheid labels still used in
Ten South African Poets, edited by Adam Schwartzman and Opening Spaces, edited by Yvonne Vera have one thing in common - they provide a selection of quite recent, stylistically varied, relatively obscure African authors, who find themselves in the same company mainly because of the editor's personal tastes
It might be expected that an anthology of South African verse published in 1999, five years after the democratic elections, would de-emphasize race
Summary
In his choice of poets, Schwartzman follows a scrupulous balance, with three "black", five "white" and two "coloured" authors, to employ the Apartheid labels still used in. Adam Schwartzman (ed): Ten South African Poets. Yvonne Vera (ed): Opening Spaces: An Anthology of Contemporary African Women's Writing.
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