First comprehensive survey of Brutus' writing. Critical Perspectives on Dennis Brutus offers an international multi-voiced examination of his volumes of poetry. A biographical introduction on Brutus' involvement with the anti-apartheid movement, as well as an examination of his aesthetic, is complemented by a recent interview with Lamont B. Steptoe, publishers' notes on the composition of volumes, and the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of Brutus' writings, as well as the public's...
Acknowledgements1A Biographical Introduction to Dennis Brutus' Art and Activism12Beneath the Knife of Love The First Collection of the Poetry of Dennis Brutus - Sirens Knuckles Boots413The Greening of Dennis Brutus - Letters to Martha494"Africanness" and Poems from Algiers605Imaginary Homelands and Thoughts Abroad: Dennis Brutus' Hybrid Modernism706A Simple Lust: Selection, Structure and Style867"Turning Stones to Trees:" The Transformation of Political Experience in Strains998An Innocent in China - China Poems1139Every Troubadour has a Mistress: The Image of the Female in Dennis Brutus' Stubborn Hope12310Statements and Poetry: Salutes and Censures Re-Examined13511Airs and Tributes. A Consolidation of the Brutus Tradition14212Pedagogic Problems in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus14613Some Thoughts on Dennis Brutus' Stubborn Hope15714Dennis Brutus: A Texas Poet16215The Defense of Dennis Brutus: Apartheid on Trial17316An Interview18817Dennis Brutus: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources209Gathered Footnotes261Notes on Contributors267