A Story to Tell

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Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI:10.1080/1013929X.2019.1618094

T. Voss

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Abstract

Although Sol Plaatje died in 1932 with many of his hopes for South Africa unfulfilled, he has not been forgotten by his fellow South Africans. In a new edition of his biography of Plaatje, Brian Willan, one of the scholars whose work revived interest in Plaatje in the 1980s, has written the life of a great South African for the new South Africa. He has made use of newly discovered documentary sources and oral memory and given us a nuanced account of a complex life. Despite suffering many disappointments and indignities, Plaatje left his countrymen and –women a rich legacy. The centenary of Native Life in South Africa (1916), still perhaps his best-known work, was celebrated in a collection of essays which testify to that work’s profound reach and continuing relevance. Plaatje continues to speak to South Africa in a way we can all understand.

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虽然索尔·普拉杰死于1932年，他对南非的许多希望都没有实现，但他并没有被他的南非同胞遗忘。布赖恩·威兰(Brian Willan)是一位学者，他的作品在20世纪80年代重新引起了人们对普拉特杰的兴趣。在他的普拉特杰传记的新版本中，他为新南非写下了一个伟大的南非人的一生。他利用新发现的文献资料和口述记忆，为我们细致入微地描述了一段复杂的生活。尽管遭受了许多失望和侮辱，普拉杰还是给他的同胞们留下了丰富的遗产。1916年出版的《南非土著生活》(Native Life in South Africa)或许仍是他最著名的作品，一百周年纪念是在一本论文集中庆祝的，这些论文集证明了这部作品的深远影响和持续的相关性。普拉杰继续以一种我们都能理解的方式对南非说话。

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Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa LITERATURE-

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期刊介绍： Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa is published bi-annually by Routledge. Current Writing focuses on recent writing and re-publication of texts on southern African and (from a ''southern'' perspective) commonwealth and/or postcolonial literature and literary-culture. Works of the past and near-past must be assessed and evaluated through the lens of current reception. Submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed by at least two referees of international stature in the field. The journal is accredited with the South African Department of Higher Education and Training.