An interview with Jeremy Cronin
Van der Vlies interviews South African poet Jeremy Cronin about poetry and politics. Among other things, Cronin shares that poetry and politics are the two pillars of his work, since his postapartheid life has been spent as a member of Parliament in the governing coalition of the African National Co...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Contemporary literature 2008-12, Vol.49 (4), p.515-540 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Van der Vlies interviews South African poet Jeremy Cronin about poetry and politics. Among other things, Cronin shares that poetry and politics are the two pillars of his work, since his postapartheid life has been spent as a member of Parliament in the governing coalition of the African National Congress. As poet and acknowledged legislator, Cronin refuses to see politics as merely the art of the possible; he instead describes it as a passionate struggle for the desirable and talks of avoiding the consolations of individualism. |
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ISSN: | 0010-7484 1548-9949 |
DOI: | 10.3368/cl.49.4.515 |