�Modern prophets, produce a new bible�: Christianity, Africanness and the poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho

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dc.contributor.authorBrown, Duncan
dc.date.accessioned02/02/2014 22:33
dc.date.available02/02/2014 22:33
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractIn this article I consider how one might approach the apparently singular figure of Nontsizi Mgqwetho, a Xhosa woman who produced an extraordinary series of Christian izibongo in newspapers in the 1920s: through what kind of language, from what critical perspective, might one think and write about her? There have been various attempts to write about Mgqwetho, and there are certain obvious possibilities in terms of approach and methodology, which I explore briefly, but I want to suggest a mode of reading which provides a richer, more engaged and more engaging understanding � one which reads with and through, rather than onto or against, her African Christian articulations.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationBrown, D. (2008). �Modern prophets, produce a new bible�: Christianity, Africanness and the poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 20(2): 77-91en_US
dc.identifier.issn1013-929X
dc.identifier.issn2159-9130
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/991
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherSouthern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZNen_US
dc.rightsCopyright Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN. Publisher granted permission for inclusion of this file in the Repository.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2008.9678302
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectNontsizi Mgqwethoen_US
dc.subjectXhosa womanen_US
dc.subjectChristian izibongoen_US
dc.subjectAfrican christianityen_US
dc.title�Modern prophets, produce a new bible�: Christianity, Africanness and the poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwethoen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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