The dassie and the hunter: a South African meeting, by Jeff Opland: book review

Title: The dassie and the hunter: a South African meeting, by Jeff Opland: book review
Creator: Wylie, Dan
Date Issued: 2005
Date: 2005
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6125
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004709
Description: [From the intoduction]: In this fascinating if not quite fine book Professor Opland, doyen scholar of oral poetries, treads that razor-edged line, devil of all memoirists, between humility and hubris, between open honesty and wallowing in one’s own unavoidability. David Yali-Manisi, the other half of this “South African meeting,” helps Opland out with his almost indefatigably calming, selfcontained, wise and energised presence. The relationship between these two men is an extraordinary, strangely evolving, not always smooth dance through several decades of South African history, politics, and academia. It really is ‘South African’ in the way in which it serves as lightning-rod to so many racial, personal, party-political, and literary currents in our recent past.
Format: 5 leaves
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Wylie, D. (2005) The dassie and the hunter: a South African meeting, by Jeff Opland: book review. English in Africa, 32 (2).

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Wylie, Dan (Emeritus Prof)

RU Department of Literary Studies in English

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