Out Of The Granite Day Dennis Brutus
As the white minority government increased restrictions on the black population he became involved in a series of.
Out of the granite day dennis brutus. As in the short one opening out of the granite day natural phenomena are treated as reflections or images. After studying law at the university of the witwatersrand and becoming increasingly active in movements opposing racial discrimination in sports brutus was. Every day mandela brutus and other inmates were trucked out to a rock quarry where they broke stones with 14 pound mallets. Black prisoners had to wear shorts to remind them as mandela says that we were boys.
Educated at fort hare college and the university of the witwatersrand he taught for 14 years in south africa and participated in. For 18 months in 1964 65 dennis brutus occupied the cell next to mandela s. A comparative analysis of the work of the south african poet dennis brutus 1924 2009 and the palestinian poet mahmud darwish 1942 2008. 10 poetry and protest.
He died early on december 26 2009 in cape town he was born in salisbury rhodesia in 1924 but his south african parents soon moved to port elizabeth where he attended paterson and schauderville high schools. Born in zimbabwe poet and human rights activist dennis brutus grew up in port elizabeth south africa and was educated at fort hare university college. Dennis brutus poet whose works centre on his sufferings and those of his fellow blacks in south africa. For 14 years brutus taught english and afrikaans in south africa.
Dennis vincent brutus 1924 2009 south african political organizer and poet. A poem about sharpeville by dennis brutus poetry has great power to make an impact. The south african poet in exile dennis brutus born 1924 is known both as a creative artist and as a political activist opposed to apartheid. Brutus entered fort hare university on a full scholarship in 1940 graduating with a distinction.
We would like to thank him for sitting through interviews and reviewing manuscripts despite a schedule crammed with speaking teaching and organizing on a world scale. A dennis brutus reader. A typical dennis brutus poem opens with a line or a couple of lines which holds in embryo the central motif of the piece. In a poem written by anti apartheid activist dennis brutus he reflects on the harrowing.
Apartheid s insane rules applied even prison. He taught high school for 14 years until he was dismissed for antiapartheid activism. In his eighth decade dennis brutus remains a trouba dour for global justice. Brutus died of prostate cancer at his home in cape town on 26 december 2009.
Dennis brutus was born in salisbury southern rhodesia of south african parents.