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A very special, collectable book of poetry, comprising 35 San poems and 8 full-colour drawings and watercolours. Designed by Jrgen Fomm. | |
Deep under the impression of the value of the vanishing culture, the German philologist Wilhelm Bleek and his English sister-in-law Lucy Lloyd studied the language and oral literature of a group of /Xam prisoners incarcerated in the Breakwater Prison in Cape Town. The authorities allowed Bleek the opporunity to have the prisoners live at his house, and over five years their narratives as well as that of some members of their families were meticulously recorded and studied at the Bleek house in Mowbray. Bleek and Lloyd referred to their San informants as ‘givers of the native literature’. |