Author: Michael Chapman
Publisher:
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Category : South African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Author: Michael Chapman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: Michael J. F. Chapman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Adam Schwartzman
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Brings together selections of ten outstanding South African poets, to show, in writing drawn from more than four decades, from very different cultures and traditions, a vital and diverse literature. Representing a vision of a pluralistic Africanism the anthology takes the poetry of the region away from the dichotomy which apartheid promoted.

Author: Stephen Gray
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Gathers poems by writers from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Mozambique, Angola, Malawi, Namibia, and Zambia.

Author: Michael J. F. Chapman
Publisher: Ad Donker Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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The New Century of South African Poetry presents the challenges of a new millennium. From a 'post-apartheid' perspective, South Africa rejoins the world as it seeks a home. Simultaneously, it searches the past for a shared though diverse inheritance.

Author: David Attwell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316175138
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1451

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South 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: Michael J. F. Chapman
Publisher:
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Category : South African poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Author: Jeff Opland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521241137
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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This book, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of the Xhosa oral poetry tradition.

Author: Gareth Cornwell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231130465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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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.