Existential nihilism in Ignatius Mabasa’s Poetry: implications for the development of the human factor
This article finds its fountainhead in the trend in Ignatius Mabasa’s poetry to cast existential nihilism as a way of life. That is, despite the fact that the poetry grapples with big issues that breed social malaise, it lacks the necessary optimism that is indispensable to struggles to transcend li...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
2022
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6697/5065 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4826 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1779905265813946368 |
|---|---|
| author | Tembo, Charles Mutasa, Dave Maganga, Allan T. |
| author_facet | Tembo, Charles Mutasa, Dave Maganga, Allan T. |
| author_sort | Tembo, Charles |
| collection | DSpace |
| description | This article finds its fountainhead in the trend in Ignatius Mabasa’s poetry to cast existential nihilism as a way of life. That is, despite the fact that the poetry grapples with big issues that breed social malaise, it lacks the necessary optimism that is indispensable to struggles to transcend life’s challenges. Hopelessness and despair have no place in Africa and literature has to recognise this fact. African people celebrate agency and revolution. Be that as it may, the poems explicated in this paper seem to be inspired by the Euro-modernist tradition which canonises meaninglessness or the absurdity of life. The centrepiece of this paper is that Mabasa abstracts his art and subsequently his audience from African existential philosophy, a philosophy premised on resistance and optimistic struggle. It is largely lachrymal art that negates struggle and transcendence. Contrary to optimism in the face of the inevitability of struggle … |
| format | Article |
| id | ir-11408-4826 |
| institution | My University |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 2022 |
| record_format | dspace |
| spelling | ir-11408-48262022-06-27T13:49:06Z Existential nihilism in Ignatius Mabasa’s Poetry: implications for the development of the human factor Tembo, Charles Mutasa, Dave Maganga, Allan T. Poetry Existential nihilism This article finds its fountainhead in the trend in Ignatius Mabasa’s poetry to cast existential nihilism as a way of life. That is, despite the fact that the poetry grapples with big issues that breed social malaise, it lacks the necessary optimism that is indispensable to struggles to transcend life’s challenges. Hopelessness and despair have no place in Africa and literature has to recognise this fact. African people celebrate agency and revolution. Be that as it may, the poems explicated in this paper seem to be inspired by the Euro-modernist tradition which canonises meaninglessness or the absurdity of life. The centrepiece of this paper is that Mabasa abstracts his art and subsequently his audience from African existential philosophy, a philosophy premised on resistance and optimistic struggle. It is largely lachrymal art that negates struggle and transcendence. Contrary to optimism in the face of the inevitability of struggle … 2022-04-14T12:27:49Z 2022-04-14T12:27:49Z 2019 Article https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6697/5065 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4826 en Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies;Vol. 29; No. 2 open |
| spellingShingle | Poetry Existential nihilism Tembo, Charles Mutasa, Dave Maganga, Allan T. Existential nihilism in Ignatius Mabasa’s Poetry: implications for the development of the human factor |
| title | Existential nihilism in Ignatius Mabasa’s Poetry: implications for the development of the human factor |
| title_full | Existential nihilism in Ignatius Mabasa’s Poetry: implications for the development of the human factor |
| title_fullStr | Existential nihilism in Ignatius Mabasa’s Poetry: implications for the development of the human factor |
| title_full_unstemmed | Existential nihilism in Ignatius Mabasa’s Poetry: implications for the development of the human factor |
| title_short | Existential nihilism in Ignatius Mabasa’s Poetry: implications for the development of the human factor |
| title_sort | existential nihilism in ignatius mabasa’s poetry: implications for the development of the human factor |
| topic | Poetry Existential nihilism |
| url | https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6697/5065 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4826 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT tembocharles existentialnihilisminignatiusmabasaspoetryimplicationsforthedevelopmentofthehumanfactor AT mutasadave existentialnihilisminignatiusmabasaspoetryimplicationsforthedevelopmentofthehumanfactor AT magangaallant existentialnihilisminignatiusmabasaspoetryimplicationsforthedevelopmentofthehumanfactor |