Author: University of South Africa. Library. Subject Reference Department
Publisher: Pretoria : University of South Africa
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A Pilot Bibliography of South African English Literature (from the Beginnings to 1971)
Author: University of South Africa. Library. Subject Reference Department
Publisher: Pretoria : University of South Africa
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher: Pretoria : University of South Africa
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Free-Lancers and Literary Biography in South Africa
Author: Stephen Gray
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004484191
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This collection is concerned with the problems and pleasures of writing literary biography in the context of South African writing. Stephen Gray's introduction outlines the choice faced by the researcher: between writing revisionist history (à la Strachey) and the personal bias the portraitist must take into account when conducting the retrieval especially of lost and enigmatic figures (à la Symons). Concentrating on the unattached irregulars of the arts in South Africa - often the arts of their times - Gray stresses the value of the free-lance figure in the formation of an evolving colonial and post-colonial literature. Subjects included are: Charles Maclean, alias John Ross, who recorded his experiences of the Zulu King Shaka in Natal's first captivity narrative; Douglas Blackburn, rated as the successor of Swift for his satires of the Anglo-Boer War conflict; Beatrice Hastings, polymath journalist whose lovers included Katherine Mansfield and Amedeo Modigliani; Stephen Black, founder of indigenous South African drama in English; Edward Wolfe, the Bloomsbury painter who began as a child-actor in the mining town of Johannesburg; Bessie Head, who became the Botswana-based wise-woman of African literature before her untimely death in 1986, yet never knew her own origins; Etienne Leroux, the Free State rancher who, in Afrikaans, wrote much-banned postmodernist novels; Mary Renault whose bestselling novels set in Ancient Greece peculiarly represented the shutdown of democracy in apartheid South Africa; Sipho Sepamla, stalwart of the Soweto Poetry school which came to prominence after the 1976 Soweto uprising; and Richard Rive, novelist, cultural commentator and liberation icon, murdered in his prime. The portrait gallery of the figures who have shaped and defined the role of literature in South Africa is both revealing and provocative, showing the route taken by some lesser-known talents in their struggle to establish the rights of authors in an often indifferent or repressive state.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004484191
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This collection is concerned with the problems and pleasures of writing literary biography in the context of South African writing. Stephen Gray's introduction outlines the choice faced by the researcher: between writing revisionist history (à la Strachey) and the personal bias the portraitist must take into account when conducting the retrieval especially of lost and enigmatic figures (à la Symons). Concentrating on the unattached irregulars of the arts in South Africa - often the arts of their times - Gray stresses the value of the free-lance figure in the formation of an evolving colonial and post-colonial literature. Subjects included are: Charles Maclean, alias John Ross, who recorded his experiences of the Zulu King Shaka in Natal's first captivity narrative; Douglas Blackburn, rated as the successor of Swift for his satires of the Anglo-Boer War conflict; Beatrice Hastings, polymath journalist whose lovers included Katherine Mansfield and Amedeo Modigliani; Stephen Black, founder of indigenous South African drama in English; Edward Wolfe, the Bloomsbury painter who began as a child-actor in the mining town of Johannesburg; Bessie Head, who became the Botswana-based wise-woman of African literature before her untimely death in 1986, yet never knew her own origins; Etienne Leroux, the Free State rancher who, in Afrikaans, wrote much-banned postmodernist novels; Mary Renault whose bestselling novels set in Ancient Greece peculiarly represented the shutdown of democracy in apartheid South Africa; Sipho Sepamla, stalwart of the Soweto Poetry school which came to prominence after the 1976 Soweto uprising; and Richard Rive, novelist, cultural commentator and liberation icon, murdered in his prime. The portrait gallery of the figures who have shaped and defined the role of literature in South Africa is both revealing and provocative, showing the route taken by some lesser-known talents in their struggle to establish the rights of authors in an often indifferent or repressive state.
A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author: Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2816
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2816
Book Description
A Bibliography of Criticism of Southern African Literature in English
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Companion to South African English Literature
Author: David Adey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
"This volume aims to be a useful companion to both the specialist and non-specialist reader of South African literature in English, and covers a period from approximately 1795 (the time of the 'First British Occupation of the Cape') to the end of 1985."--Pref.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
"This volume aims to be a useful companion to both the specialist and non-specialist reader of South African literature in English, and covers a period from approximately 1795 (the time of the 'First British Occupation of the Cape') to the end of 1985."--Pref.
The South African Novel in English Since 1950
Author: G. E. Gorman
Publisher: Boston : G.K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: Boston : G.K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Albert S. Gérard
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789630538336
Category : African literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789630538336
Category : African literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Bibliographies for African Studies, 1976-1979
Author:
Publisher: African Studies Association
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher: African Studies Association
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Black African Literature in English
Author: Bernth Lindfors
Publisher: Africana Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher: Africana Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Bibliographies for African Studies, 1970-1986
Author: Yvette Scheven
Publisher: London ; New York : H. Zell Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher: London ; New York : H. Zell Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description