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almahu_9947414977802882
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1 online resource (xv, 288 pages) :
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ISBN:
9780511586286 (ebook)
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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.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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South Africa, 1970 1996: a chronology
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Introduction /
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Interrogating silence: new possibilities faced by South African literature /
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I am dead: you cannot read: Andre Brink's On the Contrary /
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Endings and new beginning: South African fiction and transition /
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The post apartheid sublime: rediscovering the extraordinary /
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Postmodernism and black writing in South Africa /
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Shame and identity: the case of the coloured in South Africa /
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A man's world: South African gay writing and the State of Emergency /
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The final safari: on nature, myth, and the literature of the Emergency /
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Interview /
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Speech and silence in the fictions of J.M. Coetzee /
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'Dialogue' and 'fulfilment' in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron /
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Interview /
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Inside out: Jeremy Cronin's lyrical politics /
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Spinning out the present: narrative, gender, and the politics of South African theatre /
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South African theatre in the United States: the allure of the familiar and of the exotic /
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Preparing ourselves for freedom /
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Challenges facing theatre practitioners in the new South Africa /
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Current trends in Theatre for Development in South Africa /
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Select bibliography: South African literary writing in English, 1970 1995.
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Print version: ISBN 9780521592185
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511586286
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