{"product_id":"imagined-a-long-poem-9781779322555","title":"Imagined: A Long Poem","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sithembele Isaac Xhegwana\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Mwanaka Media and Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Mwanaka Media and Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: African\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To contextualise Xhegwana within contemporary South African poetry is to note his deliberate divergence from the more immediately accessible, o en performative, and politically galvanised verse that characterises much of the contemporary landscape. While the themes of IMAGINED: land, poverty, the legacy of colonialism, and the ongoing trauma of inequality; are quintessentially South African, Xhegwana's formal approach eschews simple realist depiction for a denser, intertextual, and self-consciously edified mode. He seems to inherit the epic scope of earlier poets like Mazisi Kunene or the demanding intellectual he of a Mafika Gwala, but refracts it through a raw lens of deeply personal ideation.\" - Aryan Kaganof\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mwanaka Media and Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47593006989463,"sku":"9781779322555","price":1643.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781779322555.webp?v=1774980249","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/imagined-a-long-poem-9781779322555","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}