An introduction: Peteni in context

Wright, Laurence

Title: An introduction: Peteni in context
Creator: Wright, Laurence
Date Issued: 2004
Date: 2004
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: vital:7036
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007372
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC47870
Description: preprint
Description: It is rare for a writer to make a literary impact with only one novel. It is even more unusual when that work is written by a novice author in his early sixties. Yet such is the case of R.L. Peteni, whose novel, Hill of Fools, was published by David Philip in South Africa in 1976, and internationally in the same year by Heinemann in the African Writers Series. Four years later, in 1980, the book was translated by the author into Xhosa as Kwazidenge and published by the Lovedale Press. Twenty years after initial publication, in 1996, there came a television version of Kwazidenge broadcast by the SABC, starring Willie Thambo and Amanda Quwe, though the locale was translated – in the bizarre logic of television – to an urban environment on the Cape Flats. The transposition, though pragmatic in terms of television demographics, destroyed much of the point of Peteni’s work, for Hill of Fools is South Africa’s first regional novel in English by a black writer. It is also the first novel in English by a Xhosa-speaker.
Format: 24 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: English in Africa
Relation: Wright, L.S. (2004) An introduction: Peteni in context. English in Africa, 31 (2). pp. 7-24
Relation: English in Africa volume 31 number 2 7 24 Jan 2004 type="issn">0376-8902
Rights: Wright, Laurence
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