Perspectives on South African English Literature
Author: Michael J. F. Chapman
Publisher: Ad Donker Publishers
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 576
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Author: Michael J. F. Chapman
Publisher: Ad Donker Publishers
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 576
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2018-03-27
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 047205368X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEngaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
Author: Rebecca Fasselt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-03-25
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1000562409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has undergone a significant renaissance, with new collections and young writers making a significant impact on the contemporary literary scene, and subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction and queer fiction expanding rapidly in popularity. This book examines the role of the short story genre in reflecting or championing new developments in South African writing and the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. Drawing together a range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews and personal reflective pieces, the volume traces some of the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities in the genre and sheds new light on questions of literary form. Finally, the book considers the place of the short story in twenty-first century writing and interrogates the ways in which the short story form may contribute to, or recast ideas of, the post-apartheid or post-transitional. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.
Author: D. B. Z. Ntuli
Publisher: Acacia Publishing
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hein Viljoen
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780820467894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Storyscapes we listen carefully to what South African writers reveal about themselves and their relations to South African space since the democratic transition of 1994. One main focus is the power of stories to uncover contradictory processes and investments of identity and to point readers toward a more meaningful life. Another main focus is the complexities of the post-colonial understanding of South African land, landscape, and space. Space in relation to race, class, and gender identity figures prominently in analyses and comparisons of diverse South African texts, such as Breyten Breytenbach's Dog Heart, André Brink's Imaginings of Sand, as well as the important South African subgenre of the farm novel. Questions of black or hybrid identity are highlighted by confronting older texts with new ones by black and women writers such as A.H.M. Scholtz and E.K.M. Dido. These texts - and a number of Afrikaans texts that are less well-known in the English-speaking world - are set in the wider frameworks of postcolonial criticism and global issues of cultural identity.
Author: Ann Clayton
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-10-25
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 192817163X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPOSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES explores South African fiction written under apartheid, including works by Peter Abrahams, Nadine Gordimer, Alex La Guma, Lauretta Ngcobo, Alan Paton, Sol Plaatje, Olive Schreiner, Sydney Sepamla, Mongane Wally Serote, and Pauline Smith. It is written by ANN CLAYTON, the author of several works of literary criticism, including Olive Schreiner: A Casebook (McGraw-Hill), Women and Writing in South Africa: A Critical Anthology (Heinemann), Olive Schreiner (Twayne), and Speaking of Writing: Conversations with Canadian Novelists (Vocamus Community Publications).
Author: Michael J. F. Chapman
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew van der Vlies
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 778
ISBN-13: 1868148017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn explanation of the unique role of the book and book collecting in South Africa due to the apartheid This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives- historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as varied as: the role of print cultures in contests over the nature of the colonial public sphere in the nineteenth century; orthography; iimbongi, orature and the canon; book- collecting and libraries; print and transnationalism; Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms; books in war; how the fates of South African texts, locally and globally, have been affected by their material instantiations; photocomics and other ephemera; censorship, during and after apartheid; books about art and books as art; local academic publishing; and the challenge of 'book history' for literary and cultural criticism in contemporary South Africa.
Author: David Attwell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-01-12
Total Pages: 1451
ISBN-13: 1316175138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and experiences of its people. The Cambridge History offers a comprehensive, multi-authored history of South African literature in all eleven official languages (and more minor ones) of the country, produced by a team of over forty international experts, including contributors from all of the major regions and language groups of South Africa. It will provide a complete portrait of South Africa's literary production, organised as a chronological history from the oral traditions existing before colonial settlement, to the post-apartheid revision of the past. In a field marked by controversy, this volume is more fully representative than any existing account of South Africa's literary history. It will make a unique contribution to Commonwealth, international and postcolonial studies and serve as a definitive reference work for decades to come.
Author: Leon de Kock
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9004491325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis award-winning collection of essays about culture and identity was written from the perspective of post-apartheid South Africa. Voted best special issue of 2001 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journal.