Die Karoo Book | Boek Bonanza, aangebied deur LitNet, het Sondagaand 14 Oktober op Beaufort-Wes plaasgevind. Dit was deel van die Tweede Karoo Ontwikkelingskonferensie, aangebied deur die Universiteite van die Vrystaat en Pretoria.
Boekbekendstellings deur 'n verskeidenheid skrywers is voorafgegaan deur 'n paneelbespreking oor Letterkunde en die ekologie, geborg en aangebied deur LitNet Akademies. LitNet Akademies wag tans artikelvoorleggings vir die Karoo-fokus in. Klik hier vir nog besonderhede.
Wyn is geskenk deur Leopard's Leap.
David McNaughton van McNaughton's Bookshop in Graaff-Reinet het gesorg dat daar Karoo-boeke te kies en te keur was.
Hooforganiseerder van die 2de Karoo Ontwikkelingskonferensie, Doreen Atkinson
Karoo-boeke vir Afrika
Die Karoo Boek Bonanza se wyn is geskenk deur Leopard's Leap.
LitNet Akademies het 'n paneelbespreking aangebied oor die verbintenis tussen ekologie en die letterkunde. Helize van Vuuren het met Mathilda Slabbert en Susan Smith oor ekokritiek as beweging binne die letterkunde gesels.
Lees Susan Smith se LitNet Akademies-artikel: "Die aard van ekopoësie teen die agtergrond van die ekokritiese teorie met verwysing na enkele gedigte van Martjie Bosman".
Lees Mathilda Slabbert se reaksie op die artikel in die LitNet Akademies-gespreksruimte.
Helize van Vuuren
Mathilda Slabbert het gesels oor die belang van onderwys om 'n ekologiese bewustheid te skep.
Henning Snyman was seremoniemeester van die geleentheid.
Mike de Jongh het gesels oor Roots and Routes. Karretjie People of the Great Karoo. The marginalisation of a South African First People.
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Title: Roots and Routes. Karretjie People of the Great Karoo. The marginalisation of a South African First People. The lives of a previously “invisible” and forgotten “first people” of South Africa come to the fore in this carefully researched study. The “Karretjie People” (Donkey Cart People) of the Great Karoo are direct descendants of the /Xam (San/Bushmen), who were the earliest inhabitants of much of the Karoo interior. Today, as itinerant sheep-shearers, the Karretjie People roam the arid expanses of the Karoo in their donkey carts in search of possible shearing opportunities, sleeping over on the roadside in their make-shift overnight shelters. This unique study is the result of several decades of original research into the lives and community of these gypsy-like wanderers, and highlights the plight of this marginalised South African community, “poorest of the poor”. |
Nick Norman het gesels oor Geological Journeys: A Traveller’s Guide to South Africa’s Rocks and Landforms.
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Title: Geological Journeys: A Traveller’s Guide to South Africa’s Rocks and Landforms Geological Journeys aimed to fill the gap that had existed in the magnificent spread of natural history guide books in South Africa. The book, published in 2006 and written by geologists Gavin Whitfield and Nick Norman, helps interested lay people to understand the formations in a road cutting, or the peculiar land surface or ridge of rock they see as they travel. It covers the metropolitan areas of Johannesburg-Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban, the main national highways and the tourist destinations of the great escarpment in Mpumalanga, the KZN Drakensberg and the Little Karoo. A companion volume covering the lesser travelled routes is in preparation. |
Helene Smuts het gesels oor Africa meets Africa: Pathways through the Interior.
Helene Smuts
Doreen Atkinson het gesels oor haar eie boek, A Most Awful Excitement: The Boer War Diary of Gerrit Sem of Philippolis, sowel as oor boeke in Beth Hatefutsoth se reeks Jewish Life in the South African Communities.
Susan Smith het gesels oor haar digbundel in die afwesigheid van sin wat binnekort by Protea Boekhuis verskyn. Een van die sentrale temas van die bundel is die oordrag van kultuurgoedere en die verbintenisse wat dit smee van generasie tot generasie, veral van vrou tot vrou. Dit ondersoek die mens as skepper van woorde en tekens, agtergelaat op papier, grotwande of teen elektroniese mure as inskryf teen die vergetelheid in.
Etienne van Heerden het gesels oor sy bundel kortverhale Haai Karoo, en ook oor Poison Karoo wat gratis uitgedeel is by die Karoo Boek Bonanza. Lees Poison Karoo op LitNet.
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Titel: Haai Karoo Verhale uit die hartland. Al die Karoostories wat Etienne van Heerden tot op hede geskryf het, word vir die eerste keer in een bundel versamel. Dit sluit in "Die gas in Rondawel Wilhelmina", een van sy heel sterkste tekste. Heerlike verhale wat Van Heerden se suiwer aanvoeling vir die woord en sy vermoë tot knap karakterisering en situasietekening demonstreer, almal geplaas binne 'n landskap wat hom besonder na aan die hart lê. |
Helize van Vuuren en Susan Smith
Mike de Jongh en kunstenaar Katie Barnard-Du Toit
Mathilda Slabbert
Marie Jorritsma het gesels oor Sonic Spaces of the Karoo: The Sacred Music of a South African Coloured Community.
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Title: Sonic Spaces of the Karoo: The Sacred Music of a South African Coloured Community Marie Jorritsma is a senior lecturer in music at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her book Sonic Spaces of the Karoo is the first full-length study of coloured people’s Christian religious music in the Karoo. |
Sydda Essop het gesels oor haar kookboek Karoo Kitchen | Karoo Kombuis.
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Title: Karoo Kitchen | Karoo Kombuis Karoo Kitchen | Karoo Kombuis pays homage to a rich, cultural interdependency without turning a blind eye to the isolation, political turmoil, abject poverty, socio-economic conditions and harsh climate of the region. More than 78 (mostly self-taught) cooks and healers aged from 23 to 95 were interviewed, all from different cultural corners of the region. They share their heartfelt stories of personal challenges and triumph and most precious family recipes. This is a very successful collaborative creation of publishers Quivertree, Libby Doyle and Craig Fraser. Editors: Johan van Zyl and Lin Murray; translator: Elsa Silke. |
Chris Marais het gesels oor Karoo Keepsakes.
