The New Century of South African Short Stories

The New Century of South African Short Stories PDF Author: Michael J. F. Chapman
Publisher: Ad Donker
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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The New Century of South African Short Stories

The New Century of South African Short Stories PDF Author: Michael J. F. Chapman
Publisher: Ad Donker
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Omnibus of a Century of South African Short Stories

Omnibus of a Century of South African Short Stories PDF Author: Michael J. F. Chapman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 878

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This Omnibus of a Century of South African Short Stories makes available all the stories from three best-selling anthologies: A Century of South African Short Stories (1978); the revised edition (1993); and The New Century of South African Short Stories (2004)

A Century of South African Short Stories

A Century of South African Short Stories PDF Author: Jean Marquard
Publisher: Ad Donker
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Transitions

Transitions PDF Author: Craig MacKenzie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, South African (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010

The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010 PDF Author: Marta Fossati
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198910991
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Through detailed close readings alongside investigations into the history of print culture, Marta Fossati traces the development of the South African short story in English from the late 1920s to the first decade of the twenty-first century. She examines a selection of short stories by important Black South African writers (Rolfes and Herbert Dhlomo, Peter Abrahams, Can Themba, Alex La Guma, Mtutuzeli Matshoba, Ahmed Essop, and Zoë Wicomb) with an alertness to the dialogue between ethics and aesthetics performed by these texts. This new history of Black short fiction problematises and interrogates the often-polarised readings of Black literature in South Africa that can be torn between notions of literariness, protest, and journalism. Due to material constraints, short fiction in South Africa circulated first and foremost through local print media, which Fossati analyses in detail to show the cross-fertilisation between journalism and the short story. While rooted in the South African context, the short stories considered also hold a translocal dimension, allowing us to explore the ethical and aesthetic practice of intertextuality. These are writings that complicate the aesthetics/ethics binary, generic classifications, and the categories of the literary and the political. Theoretically eclectic in its approach, although largely underpinned by a narratological analysis, The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010: When Aesthetics Meets Ethics offers a fresh perspective on the South African short story in English, spotlighting several hitherto marginalised figures in South African literary studies.

“A” Century of South African Short Stories

“A” Century of South African Short Stories PDF Author: Jean Marquard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Short Story in South Africa

The Short Story in South Africa PDF Author: Rebecca Fasselt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000562409
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has undergone a significant renaissance, with new collections and young writers making a significant impact on the contemporary literary scene, and subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction and queer fiction expanding rapidly in popularity. This book examines the role of the short story genre in reflecting or championing new developments in South African writing and the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. Drawing together a range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews and personal reflective pieces, the volume traces some of the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities in the genre and sheds new light on questions of literary form. Finally, the book considers the place of the short story in twenty-first century writing and interrogates the ways in which the short story form may contribute to, or recast ideas of, the post-apartheid or post-transitional. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.

Post-Traumatic: South African Short Stories

Post-Traumatic: South African Short Stories PDF Author: Chris van Wyk
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1990922228
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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The contributors of this anthology make up a wide spectrum of South Africans: black, white, men and women, established and budding who write in either English or Afrikaans. Among these are writers who began their careers in the fifties (George Weideman), to those who were active in the black consciousness period of the seventies (Achmat Dangor, Chris van Wyk, Maropodi Mapalakanye) through to writers who first appeared in print in the eighties and nineties (Rayda Jacobs, Finuala Dowling, Zachariah Raphola, Roshila Nair, Roy Blumenthal, Allan Kolski Horwitz). While many of the writers in this anthology have established themselves as poets, novelists, dramatists and oral storytellers, they all choose the short story as another means of expressing a diverse South Africa of rural and urban life, white suburbia, black township, childhood, love, hate, reconciliation, the grim as well as the funny that make up the tapestry of a country as it used to be and as it is today.

Like Family

Like Family PDF Author: Ena Jansen
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1776143531
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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An analytic and historical perspective of literary texts to understand the position of domestic workers in South Africa More than a million black South African women are domestic workers. Precariously situated between urban and rural areas, rich and poor, white and black, these women are at once intimately connected and at a distant remove from the families they serve. Ena Jansen shows that domestic worker relations in South Africa were shaped by the institution of slavery, establishing social hierarchies and patterns of behavior that persist today. To support her argument, Jansen examines the representation of domestic workers in a diverse range of texts in English and Afrikaans. Authors include André Brink, JM Coetzee, Imraan Coovadia, Nadine Gordimer, Elsa Joubert, Antjie Krog, Sindiwe Magona, Kopano Matlwa, Es'kia Mphahlele, Sisonke Msimang, Zukiswa Wanner and Zoë Wicomb. Like Family is an updated version of the award-winning Soos familie (2015) and the highly-acclaimed 2016 Dutch translation, Bijna familie.

African Short Stories: Vol 2

African Short Stories: Vol 2 PDF Author: Chin Ce
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9783703692
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Bequeathing an enduring tenet for the creative enterprise, African Short Stories vol 2 boldly seeks to upturn the status quo by the art of narration. Whether they are stories of the whistle blower estranged and yet sounding the warning for heaven and earth to hear, or a ragtag army fleeing in the wake of a monstrous reptilian onslaught upon her peace, there pervades a sense of ultimate victory in this collection. We can feel the gentle kick of a baby in the womb of a maiden in desperation, or we can muse at the two adolescent genii on the trail of their dreams from the sunset of mutual deceit into the daylight of true becoming. Victory is laid out in that awesome kindness of a total stranger which affirms the divinity latent in even our most harrowing existence. With thirty five stories in two parts these literary experiments compel attention to the courageous hearts and minds that brighten the African universe of narration. Their vibrant notes coming from all corners of north, west, east and south fill us with encouragement and optimism for the contemporary short fiction in Africa.