Author: Sidney Mendelssohn
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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Mendelssohn's South African Bibliography
Author: Sidney Mendelssohn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945
Author: Gareth Cornwell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231130465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231130465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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.
South African Literature
Author: Manfred Nathan
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Category : Afrikaans language
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Category : Afrikaans language
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Everyman's Encyclopaedia
Author: Ernest Franklin Bozman
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Reading for Water
Author: Isabel Hofmeyr
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000937135
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
An experiment in reading for water, this book offers students and teachers a toolkit of methods that follow the sensory, political and agentive power of water across literary texts. The chapters in this book follow rivers, rain, streams, tunnels and sewers; connect atmospheric, surface and ground water; describe competing hydrological traditions and hydro-epistemologies. They propose new literary regions defined less by nation and area than by coastlines, river basins, monsoons, currents and hydro-cosmologies. Whether thinking along water courses, below the water line, or through the fall of precipitation, Reading for Water moves laterally, vertically and contrapuntally between different water-worlds and hydro-imaginaries. Addressing southern African and Caribbean texts, the collection draws on a range of elementally inclined literary approaches: critical oceanic studies, new materialisms, coastal and hydrocritical approaches, hydrocolonialism, black hydropoetics and atmospheric methods. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Interventions.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000937135
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
An experiment in reading for water, this book offers students and teachers a toolkit of methods that follow the sensory, political and agentive power of water across literary texts. The chapters in this book follow rivers, rain, streams, tunnels and sewers; connect atmospheric, surface and ground water; describe competing hydrological traditions and hydro-epistemologies. They propose new literary regions defined less by nation and area than by coastlines, river basins, monsoons, currents and hydro-cosmologies. Whether thinking along water courses, below the water line, or through the fall of precipitation, Reading for Water moves laterally, vertically and contrapuntally between different water-worlds and hydro-imaginaries. Addressing southern African and Caribbean texts, the collection draws on a range of elementally inclined literary approaches: critical oceanic studies, new materialisms, coastal and hydrocritical approaches, hydrocolonialism, black hydropoetics and atmospheric methods. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Interventions.
Companion to South African English Literature
Author: David Adey
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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.
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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"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.
Africana Notes and News
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
Author: Ursula Kluwick
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317040546
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
From early colonial encounters to the ecological disasters of the twenty-first century, the performativity of contact has been a crucial element in the political significance of the beach. Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a socio-cultural site, as well as an aesthetically productive topography, this collection examines its multiplicity of meanings and functions as a natural environment engendering both desire and fear in the human imagination from the Victorian period to the present. The contributors examine literature, film, and art, in addition to moments of encounter and environmental crisis, to highlight the beach as a social space inspiring particular codes of behaviour and specific discourses, as a geographical frontier between land and water, as an historical site of contact and conflict, and as a vacationscape promising regeneration and withdrawal from everyday life. The diversity of the beach is reflected in the geographical range, with essays on locales and texts from Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, South Africa, the United States, Polynesia, and New Zealand. Focusing on the changed function of the beach as a result of processes of industrialisation and the rise of a modern leisure and health culture, this interdisciplinary volume theorises the beach as a demarcater of the precarious boundary between land and the sea, as well as between nature and culture.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317040546
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
From early colonial encounters to the ecological disasters of the twenty-first century, the performativity of contact has been a crucial element in the political significance of the beach. Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a socio-cultural site, as well as an aesthetically productive topography, this collection examines its multiplicity of meanings and functions as a natural environment engendering both desire and fear in the human imagination from the Victorian period to the present. The contributors examine literature, film, and art, in addition to moments of encounter and environmental crisis, to highlight the beach as a social space inspiring particular codes of behaviour and specific discourses, as a geographical frontier between land and water, as an historical site of contact and conflict, and as a vacationscape promising regeneration and withdrawal from everyday life. The diversity of the beach is reflected in the geographical range, with essays on locales and texts from Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, South Africa, the United States, Polynesia, and New Zealand. Focusing on the changed function of the beach as a result of processes of industrialisation and the rise of a modern leisure and health culture, this interdisciplinary volume theorises the beach as a demarcater of the precarious boundary between land and the sea, as well as between nature and culture.
A South African Bibliography to the Year 1925
Author: Sidney Mendelssohn
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Publisher:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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