South African textual cultures : white, black, read all over
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書誌事項
South African textual cultures : white, black, read all over
Manchester University Press, 2007
- : hbk
大学図書館所蔵 全3件
注記
Bibliography: p. [177]-214
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005, asking: who published what, where, why, and how; how and why work was construed as 'South African', what this meant, and how it affected reading. Exploring new approaches to studying colonial and postcolonial print cultures, it seeks to redress inadequately historicised or transnationally situated studies of South African writing in English.
In addition to making considerable contributions to the study of well-known writers like Olive Schreiner, Alan Paton, and Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee (chapters on the early publication history of Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm, Paton's globally influential Cry, the Beloved Country, and Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country, his second novel but the first to be published abroad), it also includes discussions of the contrasting reputations of poets Roy Campbell and William Plomer in the 1920s and 1930s, of exiled ANC-activist Alex La Guma's publishing odyssey (in Nigeria, East Germany and Britain); and Zakes Mda's novel about hybrid identities and identifications in colonial and in post-apartheid South Africa, The Heart of Redness (2000).
The book is absolutely essential reading for anyone with an interest in the fields of South African, African, and general colonial and postcolonial literatures and history, as well as those with an interest print and media cultures, and the History of the Book. -- .
目次
Contents
List of plates and figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. South African textual cultures
2. Farming stories (I): Olive Schreiner's fates
3. 'Hurled by what aim to what tremendous range': Roy Campbell, William Plomer, & the politics of reputation
4. Whose Beloved Country? Alan Paton and the hypercanonical
5. Alex La Guma's marginal aesthetics and the institutions of protest
6. Farming Stories (II): J. M. Coetzee & the (heart of a) country
7. Zakes Mda's novel educations
Afterword: white(s) and black(s), read all over
Bibliography
Index -- .
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