Peter Blum’s ‘Kaapse Sonette’ and Giochino Belli’s Sonetti Romaneschi

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dc.title	Peter Blum’s ‘Kaapse Sonette’ and Giochino Belli’s Sonetti Romaneschi. From Trastevere to Table Mountain
dc.contributor.author	Voss Tony
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/english-literature/2016/1numero-monografico/peter-blums-kaapse-sonette-and-giochino-bellis-son/
dc.description.abstract	‘Kaapse Sonette’ (Cape Sonnets) refers to the nine sonnets which Afrikaans poet Peter Blum (Trieste 1925-London 1990) published in two different books of poetry, Steembok tot Poolsee (Capricorn to Polar Sea) in 1955 and Enklaves van die Lig (Enclaves of the Light) in 1958, using Giuseppe Gioachino Belli’s Sonetti Romaneschi as inspirational source, in some cases faithfully translating from the Romanesque dialect of the original, in others ‘only’ transposing the social background of Belli’s sonnets to depict the condition, as well as the language, of the black population in Apartheid South Africa. ‘The Kaapse Sonette’, like the Romanesque Sonnets, makes a strenuous attempt to address a monolithic, authoritarian state, a regime de facto, unable and unwilling to acknowledge the voices and identities of its own population.
dc.relation.ispartof	English Literature
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 3 \| December 2016
dc.issued	2016-12-23
dc.dateAccepted	2016-08-05
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2420-823X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2420-823X/EL-3-16-5
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Apartheid
dc.subject	Apartheid
dc.subject	Belli
dc.subject	Belli
dc.subject	Italy
dc.subject	Italy
dc.subject	Peter Blum
dc.subject	Peter Blum
dc.subject	South Africa
dc.subject	South Africa

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Peter Blum’s ‘Kaapse Sonette’ and Giochino Belli’s Sonetti Romaneschi

From Trastevere to Table Mountain

Tony Voss University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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‘Kaapse Sonette’ (Cape Sonnets) refers to the nine sonnets which Afrikaans poet Peter Blum (Trieste 1925-London 1990) published in two different books of poetry, Steembok tot Poolsee (Capricorn to Polar Sea) in 1955 and Enklaves van die Lig (Enclaves of the Light) in 1958, using Giuseppe Gioachino Belli’s Sonetti Romaneschi as inspirational source, in some cases faithfully translating from the Romanesque dialect of the original, in others ‘only’ transposing the social background of Belli’s sonnets to depict the condition, as well as the language, of the black population in Apartheid South Africa. ‘The Kaapse Sonette’, like the Romanesque Sonnets, makes a strenuous attempt to address a monolithic, authoritarian state, a regime de facto, unable and unwilling to acknowledge the voices and identities of its own population.

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Dec. 23, 2016

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Aug. 5, 2016

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Keywords: Peter Blum • South Africa • Italy • Apartheid • Belli

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