The Genesis of Black South African Writing in English 1860-1945
Author | : Tim Couzens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : South African literature (English) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tim Couzens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : South African literature (English) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gareth Cornwell |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0231130465 |
From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid. Because apartheid intruded on every aspect of private and public life, South African literature was preoccupied with the politics of race and social engineering. Since the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990, South Africa has been a new nation-in-the-making, inspired by a nonracial idealism yet beset by poverty and violence. South African writers have responded in various ways to Njabulo Ndebele's call to "rediscover the ordinary." The result has been a kaleidoscope of texts in which evolving cultural forms and modes of identity are rearticulated and explored. An invaluable guide for general readers as well as scholars of African literary history, this comprehensive text celebrates the multiple traditions and exciting future of the South African voice. Although the South African Constitution of 1994 recognizes no fewer than eleven official languages, English has remained the country's literary lingua franca. This book offers a narrative overview of South African literary production in English from 1945 to the postapartheid present. An introduction identifies the most interesting and noteworthy writing from the period. Alphabetical entries provide accurate and objective information on genres and writers. An appendix lists essential authors published before 1945.
Author | : Bernth Lindfors |
Publisher | : Africa Research and Publications |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Authors, African |
ISBN | : 9781592218417 |
'Early Black South African Writing in English.' Bernth Lindfors examines a pioneering generation of South African writers, featuring literature written in English and English in translation, focusing mainly on literature produced in the first decades of the apartheid era - adding a poignant aspect to the context of this work. Representative works form before and after that period are also considered, especially those that made an impact nationally or internationally.
Author | : David Attwell |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Apartheid in literature |
ISBN | : 0821417118 |
Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History connects the black literary archive in South Africa to international postcolonial studies via the theory of transculturation, a position adapted from the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz.
Author | : Christopher Heywood |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2004-11-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781139455329 |
This book is a critical study of South African literature, from colonial and pre-colonial times onwards. Christopher Heywood discusses selected poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. The discussion includes over 100 authors and selected works, including poets from Mqhayi, Marais and Campbell to Butler, Serote and Krog, theatre writers from Boniface and Black to Fugard and Mda, and fiction writers from Schreiner and Plaatje to Bessie Head and the Nobel prizewinners Gordimer and Coetzee. The literature is explored in the setting of crises leading to the formation of modern South Africa, notably the rise and fall of the Emperor Shaka's Zulu kingdom, the Colenso crisis, industrialisation, the colonial and post-colonial wars of 1899, 1914, and 1939, and the dissolution of apartheid society. In Heywood's study, South African literature emerges as among the great literatures of the modern world.
Author | : Daniel R. Woolf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Historiography |
ISBN | : 0199533091 |
A chronological scholarly survey of the history of historical writing in five volumes. Each volume covers a particular period of time, from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world.
Author | : University of London. Institute of Commonwealth Studies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Africa, Southern |
ISBN | : |