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Studies in Khoisan verbs and other poems, PDF eBook

Studies in Khoisan verbs and other poems PDF

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Du Toit draws on his childhood years in Botswana (the Bechuanaland Protectorate, as it was in thosedays) to examine questions of language identity and entitlement. He recalls confiding the secret of a magic trick to an itinerant Tswana man who in exchange taught him how to say a few words of the / Xam language; this proximity of language to the magical fashioning of reality still haunts him and has led to poems questioning our sense of belonging to social structures, sexual groupings and even to humanity itself.

Paradoxically, a diverse ethnic background (with Dutch, French, German and Scottish forebears) works against Du Toits sense of being welcomed into any single national group. Two directions of trans-national entitlement remain open movement into an inner landscape of spiritual and artistic values, and an allegiance to the planet as an ecologically neutral, valued and threatened space of dwelling. Both of these manifestations of home feature prominently in Du Toits work. A visionary linguistics binds these worlds together foregrounding of the inner life as a source of values and home encourages a Kantian vision of a natural world created by the necessary structures of human consciousness, language being the force and locus of this creation. Du Toits longed-for release from paid employment in 2011 allowed him to spend his mornings in Edinburgh Universitys Main Library; there, over the next ten years, basing himself on the Third Floor of the library (where the Universitys literature collections are housed), he composed a large body of poems, mainly free-verse sonnets, from which the poems of Studies in Khoisan Verbs are drawn.

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