Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Inboud
- The Unisa Flame Series
- Inleiding
- Voorwoord deur Chris van der Merwe
- Erkennings
- Hoofstuk 1 Nandi kies Senzangakhona
- Hoofstuk 2 Senzangakhona verwerp Nandi
- Hoofstuk 3 Chaka maak ’n leeu dood
- Hoofstuk 4 Chaka word deur die koning van die diep waters besoek
- Hoofstuk 5 Chaka vlug van sy tuiste
- Hoofstuk 6 Chaka ontmoet Isanusi
- Hoofstuk 7 Isanusi berei Chaka met medisyne voor
- Hoofstuk 8 Chaka kom by Dingiswayo aan – hy maak die waansinnige dood Die oorlog by Zwide
- Hoofstuk 9 Ndlebe en Malunga sluit by Chaka aan
- Hoofstuk 10 Chaka vang Zwide
- Hoofstuk 11 Die dood van Senzangakhona
- Hoofstuk 12 Noliwa
- Hoofstuk 13 Chaka en Isanusi by Senzangakhona se graf
- Hoofstuk 14 Chaka word in die koningskap van sy vader bevestig
- Hoofstuk 15 Zwide maak Dingiswayo dood Chaka verwerf die koningskap van Dingiswayo
- Hoofstuk 16 Die nuwe naam
- Hoofstuk 17 Die hervormings en organisasie van Chaka
- Hoofstuk 18 Die dood van Noliwa
- Hoofstuk 19 Afrekening met die lafaards
- Hoofstuk 20 Chaka val suidwaarts aan. Mzilikazi
- Hoofstuk 21 Oor Nongogo en Mnyamana
- Hoofstuk 22 Die dood van Nandi
- Hoofstuk 23 Die onversadigbare dors
- Hoofstuk 24 Pynlike drome
- Hoofstuk 25 Donga lukaTatiyana
- Hoofstuk 26 Die einde van Chaka
- Ander geraadpleegde werke
The Unisa Flame Series
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2021
- Frontmatter
- Inboud
- The Unisa Flame Series
- Inleiding
- Voorwoord deur Chris van der Merwe
- Erkennings
- Hoofstuk 1 Nandi kies Senzangakhona
- Hoofstuk 2 Senzangakhona verwerp Nandi
- Hoofstuk 3 Chaka maak ’n leeu dood
- Hoofstuk 4 Chaka word deur die koning van die diep waters besoek
- Hoofstuk 5 Chaka vlug van sy tuiste
- Hoofstuk 6 Chaka ontmoet Isanusi
- Hoofstuk 7 Isanusi berei Chaka met medisyne voor
- Hoofstuk 8 Chaka kom by Dingiswayo aan – hy maak die waansinnige dood Die oorlog by Zwide
- Hoofstuk 9 Ndlebe en Malunga sluit by Chaka aan
- Hoofstuk 10 Chaka vang Zwide
- Hoofstuk 11 Die dood van Senzangakhona
- Hoofstuk 12 Noliwa
- Hoofstuk 13 Chaka en Isanusi by Senzangakhona se graf
- Hoofstuk 14 Chaka word in die koningskap van sy vader bevestig
- Hoofstuk 15 Zwide maak Dingiswayo dood Chaka verwerf die koningskap van Dingiswayo
- Hoofstuk 16 Die nuwe naam
- Hoofstuk 17 Die hervormings en organisasie van Chaka
- Hoofstuk 18 Die dood van Noliwa
- Hoofstuk 19 Afrekening met die lafaards
- Hoofstuk 20 Chaka val suidwaarts aan. Mzilikazi
- Hoofstuk 21 Oor Nongogo en Mnyamana
- Hoofstuk 22 Die dood van Nandi
- Hoofstuk 23 Die onversadigbare dors
- Hoofstuk 24 Pynlike drome
- Hoofstuk 25 Donga lukaTatiyana
- Hoofstuk 26 Die einde van Chaka
- Ander geraadpleegde werke
Summary
Positioned within the Research and Innovation Portfolio at Unisa, the Unisa Flame Series was sparked by the need to create a space in which to publish ground-breaking works of high merit and originality which move beyond the scope of the traditional.
Works that point to new expressive pathways, new ways of making sense, and new kinds of interactive explanation are published here. As original creative and analytical materials, books in the Series transcend the boundaries of subject field and medium, and are typically hard to package as either academic or popular. The aim of the Series is thus to open up a space at Unisa Press for such new forms of expression, which defy classical academic categories of publishing.
Within this paradigm of unlocking the future, which draws on Africa's scrambled periodization in which premodernity, modernity and postmodernity cohabit, the Series draws in works that are cuttingedge and which cater for a new generation of digital natives as well as for an existing print-based readership.
Thomas Mofolo's Chaka falls naturally within the Unisa Flame Series in terms of its scholarly and artistic merit and its multidisciplinary scope. The intercultural contexts of IsiZulu, SeSotho and Afrikaans cultures come to the fore in this creative retelling of an IsiZulu legend cast into SeSotho, and here translated into Afrikaans. This is a second, improved Afrikaans translation by a SeSotho scholar, Chris Swanepoel, which adds to the close transference from one culture to another. With the addition of a complete audiobook, the link with the oral tradition within African cultures is made. Listeners of the audiobook have the added advantage of the reading of Prof Antjie Krog, renowned poet, whose voice succeeds in subtly conveying meaning and nuance within various characters and as flowing from her in-depth knowledge of the world of Chaka.
In his Caribbean Discourse, Edouard Glissant says, “The epic of the Zulu emperor Chaka, as related by Thomas Mofolo, seems to me to exemplify an African poetics … . All the great African conquerors of the 18th and 19th century were haunted … by the approach of the white man … ”. This insight links the book translation to the current decolonisation debate, and the white man's presence in this epic.
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- ChakaDie nuwe Afrikaanse vertaling, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: University of South AfricaPrint publication year: 2017