The Man of Heaven and the Beautiful Ones of God: Umuntu Wasezulwini Nabantu Abahle Bakankulunkulu : Writings from Ibandla Lamanazaretha, a South African Church - Rilegato

Gunner, Elizabeth

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ISBN 10: 9004125426 ISBN 13: 9789004125421

Casa editrice: Brill Academic Pub, 2002

Riassunto

This book provides an insight into the role of writing and literacy in the church founded by the South African prophet Isaiah Shembe, in 1910.
The editor and tanslator provides a substantial, contextualising introduction which includes discussion of the church's history and its position in contemporary South Africa, and weaves in discussion of the topics of literacy and modernity. The book then moves to the three documents, presented in their language of composition, Zulu, and in an English translation. The three books, each from Shembe's Nazareth Baptist Church, provide the reader with an insight into the growth and organisation of one of southern Africa's most influential African Churches, and into its use and interpretation of the Bible. Central to the writings is the complex presence of Shembe, both through his own words in the first book and, in the second book, through the memory of Meshack Hadebe, a member of the church in the 1920's and 1930's. The extracts in the third book provide a glimpse of the church's hymnal and the unique religious poetry of the hymns, authored by Shembe.
The first and second books are a valuable addition to the genres of biography and autobiography of Black Africans in the early decades of the twentieth century. The dual language text is useful for scholars of African languages.

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L'autore:

Elizabeth Gunner, Ph.D. (1984) in African Languages and Literatures, School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, is Professor of English Studies, School of Language, Culture and Communication at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Her most recent publications are a literary afterword to Zulu Woman. The Life Story of Christina Sibiya by Rebecca Reyher and Wrestling with the Present, Remembering the Past: Zulu Radio Drama in Contemporary South Africa (Journal of Southern African Studies, 2000).

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Book by Gunner Elizabeth

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Brill Academic Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 9004125426
• ISBN 13: 9789004125421
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 245