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Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali (born 17 January 1940) is a South African poet. He has written in both Zulu and English. He studied at Columbia University. He now lives in Soweto. ==First Book== Mtshali worked as a messenger in Soweto before he became a poet, and his first book, ''Sounds of a Cowhide Drum'' (1971), explores both the banality and extremity of apartheid through the eyes of working men of South Africa, even while it recalls the energy of those Mtshali frequently calls simply "ancestors." It was published with a preface by Nadine Gordimer. ''Sounds of a Cowhide Drum'' was one of the first books of poems by a black South African poet to be widely distributed, and provoked considerable debate among the white South African population, but it was extremely successful, making a considerable profit for its white publisher, Lionel Abrahams.〔McClintock, Ann. "'Azikwelwa' (We Will Not Ride): Politics and Value in Black South African Poetry" (''Critical Inquiry'', Vol. 13, No. 3 (), 597-623), 612.〕 The title of the book is explained by an image in a poem with the same title: :I am the drum on your dormant soul, cut from the black hide of a sacrificial cow. :I am the spirit of your ancestors. . .〔Quoted in McClintock 614.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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