Host and Parasite in Setswana Poetry: An Intertextual Analysis of Themes: Protest and Love
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25159/1016-8427/3798Keywords:
intertextuality; protest; love; poetry; themeAbstract
The article explores two themes in Setswana poetry conveyed through poetic aestheticism, namely, protest and love. The theme of protest is an expression of dissent or opposition against an inhumane political system whereas the premise of love signifies fulfilment and gratification of feelings. The aim of the study is to determine the intertextual relationship of Batswana poets regarding protest and love and to establish whether this connection reflects a parasite-host or host-parasite relationship in literature. The study confines itself to D. M. Mothoagae’s poems (that have not been explored exhaustively) and investigates how these poems feed on other Batswana poets’ works.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright will be vested in Unisa Press. However, as long as you do not use the article in ways which would directly conflict with the publisher's business interests, you retain the right to use your own article (provided you acknowledge the published version of the article) as follows:
- to make further copies of all or part of the published article for your use in classroom teaching;
- to make copies of the final accepted version of the article for internal distribution within your institution, or to place it on your own or your institution's website or repository, or on a site that does not charge for access to the article, but you must arrange not to make the final accepted version of the article available to the public until 18 months after the date of acceptance;
- to reuse all or part of this material in a compilation of your own works or in a textbook of which you are the author, or as the basis for a conference presentation.
Accepted 2019-02-20
Published 2019-06-14
