South African Writing In Transition
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Author | : Rita Barnard |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-02-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350086894 |
Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book asks the question: how has contemporary South African literature grappled with ideas of time and history during the political transition away from apartheid? Reading the work of major South African writers such as J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Ivan Vladislavic as well as contemporary crime fiction, South African Writing in Transition explores how concerns about time and temporality have shaped literary form across the country's literary culture. Establishing new connections between leading literary voices and lesser known works, the book explores themes of truth and reconciliation, disappointment and betrayal.
Author | : Derek Attridge |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1998-01-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521597685 |
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's relation to politics and ethics. Writing South Africa offers a window on the literary activity of this extraordinary period that conveys its range (going well beyond a handful of world-renowned names) and its significance for anyone interested in the impact of decolonisation and democratisation on the cultural sphere. It brings together for the first time discussions by some of the most distinguished South African novelists, poets, and dramatists, with those of leading commentators based in South Africa, Britain and North America.
Author | : Duncan Brown |
Publisher | : University of Kwazulu Natal Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
Provides a collection of interviews with South African writers, cultural workers and academics, from differing ideological positions, about the debates generated by Albie Sachs's paper 'Preparing Ourselves for Freedom'. This book aims to document the cultural history, and stimulate responses by placing together disparate and conflicting arguments.
Author | : Rita Barnard |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-02-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350086908 |
Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book asks the question: how has contemporary South African literature grappled with ideas of time and history during the political transition away from apartheid? Reading the work of major South African writers such as J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Ivan Vladislavic as well as contemporary crime fiction, South African Writing in Transition explores how concerns about time and temporality have shaped literary form across the country's literary culture. Establishing new connections between leading literary voices and lesser known works, the book explores themes of truth and reconciliation, disappointment and betrayal.
Author | : Judith Inggs |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2015-12-07 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 3319255347 |
This book conveys the story of a society in the throes of restructuring itself and struggling to find a new identity. A particularly attractive aspect of this study is the focus on young adult literature and its place in post-apartheid South Africa, as well as its potential use in the classroom and lecture hall. Intersecting these two topics provides a compelling lens for refocusing debate on young adult fiction while offering a new and novel angle on debates in South Africa after the end of apartheid. The multilingual and multicultural South African society has resulted in fiction that differs from other parts of the English-speaking world. This work presents a holistic critique of South African young adult fiction and addresses issues such as change and transformation, identity politics, sexuality, and the issue of the right of white writers to represent and “write” characters of different races.
Author | : Djelal Kadir |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Africa, Southern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rita Barnard |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2012-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199791163 |
Apartheid and Beyond explores a wide range of South African writings to demonstrate the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons.
Author | : Amanda Lock Swarr |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1438444087 |
Honorable Mention, 2013 Ruth Benedict Book Prize presented by the Association for Queer Anthropology Honorable Mention, 2014 Distinguished Book Award presented by the Section on Sexualities of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2013 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies presented by the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies Sex in Transition explores the lives of those who undermine the man/woman binary, exposing the gendered contradictions of apartheid and the transition to democracy in South Africa. In this context, gender liminality—a way to describe spaces between common conceptions of "man" and "woman"—is expressed by South Africans who identify as transgender, transsexual, transvestite, intersex, lesbian, gay, and/or eschew these categories altogether. This book is the first academic exploration of challenges to the man/woman binary on the African continent and brings together gender, queer, and postcolonial studies to question the stability of sex. It examines issues including why transsexuals' sex transitions were encouraged under apartheid and illegal during the political transition to democracy and how butch lesbians and drag queens in urban townships reshape race and gender. Sex in Transition challenges the dominance of theoretical frameworks based in the global North, drawing on fifteen years of research in South Africa to define the parameters of a new transnational transgender and sexuality studies.
Author | : Oscar Hemer |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 364380122X |
What can fiction tell us about the world that journalism and science cannot? This simple yet vast question is the starting-point for an interrogation of the relationship between literary fiction and society's dramatic transformation in South Africa and Argentina over the past several decades. The resulting discursive text borders on both journalism and literature, incorporating reportage, essay, and memoir. (Series: Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology - Vol. 34)
Author | : Hedley Twidle |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1847011888 |
Unusable pasts; scandalous lives; political betrayal, confession and collaboration: reading narrative non-fiction across South Africa's unfinished transition.