Poetry and Resistance in the 1970’s

Published: 16 Jan 2015
Updated: 27 Aug 2019

Summary

A multitude of African poetics has populated the constantly shifting maps of Africa throughout the twentieth-century and has inhabited the history of South Africa‘s literary cultures with words of hope which have flourished in and out of South Africa in a hybrid synergy against hegemonic dominance and the language and structures of apartheid.

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Literature

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South African History Online. (2015, January 16). Poetry and Resistance in the 1970’s. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/A-0098831

South African History Online (2015) 'Poetry and Resistance in the 1970’s', South African History Online, 16 January. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/A-0098831 (Accessed: 22 July 2026).

South African History Online, Poetry and Resistance in the 1970’s [website], https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/A-0098831, (accessed 22 July 2026).

"Poetry and Resistance in the 1970’s." South African History Online, 16 Jan. 2015, https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/A-0098831. Accessed 22 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Poetry and Resistance in the 1970’s." South African History Online. January 16, 2015. https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/A-0098831.