Xhosa literature : spoken and printed words

Intro; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1 Oral tradition, books, newspapers; Oral tradition; 2 History as literature; 3 Two recorded poems by S.E.K. Mqhayi; 4 Izibongo as invocation; 5 The imbongi as trickster; 6 Izibongo on the cusp of change; Books; 7 The first Xhosa novel: S.E.K. Mqhayi's U-Samson (1907); 8 The publication of A.C. Jordan's novel, Ingqumbo yeminyanya (1940); 9 The earliest published poem on Nelson Mandela (1954); Newspapers; 10 Nineteenth-century Xhosa literature; 11 Fighting with the pen.
12 The newspaper as empowering medium: the case of Nontsizi Mgqwetho13 Abantu-Batho and the Xhosa poets; Epilogue; 14 A creative response to izibongo: The Dassie and the Hunter (2005); Bibliography; Index.