Author: Lionel Abrahams
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Category : Literature and society
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: Lionel Abrahams
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
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Category : South African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Lionel Abrahams
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9780958440288
Category : Jewish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Author: Robin Malan
Publisher: New Africa Books
ISBN: 9780864860798
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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A vital, exciting collection of poetry for middle senior school level.

Author: Lionel Abrahams
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781770090972
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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In the kaleidoscope that is Lionel Abrahams, we find poet and wit, lover and critic, a voice speaking to us - especially to poets - with an inspirational clarity.

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Languages : en
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Author: Graeme Friedman
Publisher: New Africa Books
ISBN: 9780864864284
Category : Authors, South African
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Sparkling contributions from some of the most significant South African writers of the late-20th century, chosen by them to reflect the influence of Abrahams on their writing.

Author: Raphael Dalleo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781382964
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Postcolonial studies has taken a significant turn since 2000 from the post-structural focus on language and identity of the 1980s and 1990s to more materialist and sociological approaches. A key theorist in inspiring this innovative new scholarship has been Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies shows the emergence of this strand of postcolonialism through collecting texts that pioneered this approach-by Graham Huggan, Chris Bongie, and Sarah Brouillette-as well as emerging scholarship that follows the path these critics have established. This Bourdieu-inspired work examines the institutions that structure the creation, dissemination, and reception of world literature; the foundational values of the field and its sometimes ambivalent relationship to the popular; and the ways concepts like habitus, cultural capital, consecration and anamnesis can be deployed in reading postcolonial texts. Topics include explorations of the institutions of the field such as the B.B.C.'s Caribbean voices program and the South African publishing industry; analysis of Bourdieu's fieldwork in Algeria during the decolonization era; and comparisons between Bourdieu's work and alternative versions of literary sociology such as Pascale Casanova's and Franco Moretti's. The sociological approach to literature developed in the collected essays shows how, even if the commodification of postcolonialism threatens to neutralize the field's potential for resistance and opposition, a renewed project of postcolonial critique can be built in the contaminated spaces of globalization.

Author: Miriam E. Conteh-Morgan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313068992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Now a firmly established part of world literature course offerings in many general education curricula, African literature is no longer housed exclusively with African Studies programs, and is often studied in English, French, Portuguese, Women's Studies, and Comparative Studies departments. This book helps fill the great need for research materials on this topic, presenting the best resources available for 300 African writers. These writers have been carefully selected to include both well-known writers and those less commonly studied yet highly influential. They are drawn from both the Sub-Sahara and the Maghreb, the major geographical regions of Africa. The study of Africa was introduced into the curriculum of institutions of higher learning in the United States in the 1960s, when the Black Consciousness movement in the United States and the Cold War and decolonization movements in Africa created a need for the systematic study of other regions of the world. Between 1986 and 1991, three Africans won Nobel literature prizes: Soyinka, Mahfouz, and Gordimer, and the visibility of African writers increased. They are now a firmly established part of world literature courses in many general education curricula throughout North America. African Writers is meant to serve as a resource for introductory material on 300 writers from 39 countries. These writers were selected on the basis on two criteria: that there is material on them in an easily available reference work; and that there is some information of research value on free Web sites. Each writer is from the late-19th or 20th century, with the notable exception of Olaudah Equiano, an 18th-century African whose slave narrative is generally considered the first work of African literature. All entries are annotated.

Author: Lionel Abrahams
Publisher: Bateleur Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Episodic novel of the life of a crippled, Jewish South African. Felix Greenspan is South African, Jewish and the victim of cerebral palsy -- like Lionel Abraham himself. Even ordinary, everyday accomplishments are difficult for him. He has his own heroes, and he finds love, rarely -- but he finds it, sometimes freely given, sometimes bought.