Riana Scheepers
Autore di Verstaan My Verlangste
Sull'Autore
Opere di Riana Scheepers
Opere correlate
Vlaanderen & Co : poëten in het parlement : bloemlezing 2002 (2002) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Scheepers, Riana
- Nome legale
- Scheepers, Adriana Wilhelmina
- Altri nomi
- Ntonmbenhle (Zulu name)
- Data di nascita
- 1957-12-09
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- South Africa
- Luogo di nascita
- Vryheid, South Africa
- Luogo di residenza
- Wellington, South Africa
Paternoster, South Africa
Klipkraal, South Africa - Istruzione
- University of Cape Town (Ph.D.)
- Attività lavorative
- Writer, farmer, lecturer, motivational speaker,
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Eugène Marais-prize, ATKV prize, Patrick Petersen prize, Top 10 Women -award
- Breve biografia
- Riana Scheepers was born on 9 December 1957 in Vryheid in Natal, South Africa. She spent her childhood years in the small rural town of Pongola in Zululand. She returned to Zululand in 1988 as lecturer at the University of Zululand. This early (and later) contact with the Zulu people and their culture would later inspire the collection of short stories entitled Die ding in die vuur and would have a profound influence on all her later writing, giving it that unique imprint that her work has become famous for.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 25
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 133
- Popolarità
- #152,660
- Voto
- 3.2
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 43
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 1
The stories in this collection play on some obvious South African themes: Zulu and Dutch-Calvinist cultural traditions, violence, and so on, but the main recurring theme seems to be the way female strength can be elided into witchcraft. In some of the stories women are falsely accused of using supernatural powers; in others they actually do seem to have the power to change the world in unauthorised ways. Sometimes — as in the story where an elderly woman unjustly consigned to an asylum by her relatives gets her own back on the world by fine embroidery — Scheepers expresses her anger at the state the world is in subtly and very indirectly; at other times she is frighteningly direct.… (altro)