Riana Scheepers
Autor/a de Verstaan My Verlangste
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Riana Scheepers
Obres associades
Vlaanderen & Co : poëten in het parlement : bloemlezing 2002 (2002) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Scheepers, Riana
- Nom oficial
- Scheepers, Adriana Wilhelmina
- Altres noms
- Ntonmbenhle (Zulu name)
- Data de naixement
- 1957-12-09
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- South Africa
- Lloc de naixement
- Vryheid, South Africa
- Llocs de residència
- Wellington, South Africa
Paternoster, South Africa
Klipkraal, South Africa - Educació
- University of Cape Town (Ph.D.)
- Professions
- Writer, farmer, lecturer, motivational speaker,
- Premis i honors
- Eugène Marais-prize, ATKV prize, Patrick Petersen prize, Top 10 Women -award
- Biografia breu
- 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.
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 24
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 132
- Popularitat
- #153,555
- Valoració
- 3.2
- Ressenyes
- 4
- ISBN
- 43
- Llengües
- 5
- Preferit
- 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.… (més)