Representing dissension : riot, rebellion and resistance in the South African English novel
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Representing dissension : riot, rebellion and resistance in the South African English novel
Unisa Press, c2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-319) and index
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内容説明
This study seeks to explore all South African fictional representations by white writers in English related to historically recorded acts of dissidence or agitation during the period c. 1906 to c. 1956. For too long the world of political and labour issues has been regarded as not quite proper for literary criticism undertaken by liberal humanists. The author of Representing dissension wishes to recuperate notions of an authentic liberalism in a society where this philosophy has been mocked and repudiated by both the left and the right. Thus the title investigates, from a liberal humanist perspective, ways in which writers of fiction represent particular events or phases in South African history involving sociopolitical dissidence and agitation. In doing so it seeks to develop an intimate sense of the actuality of a period by using historical material close in date to the period itself. However, the study is not primarily intended to supplement or correct the evidence available to historians.Rather it is concerned with the degree to which writers' re-creation of particular events or historical phases may have led them to some awareness of the gap between the actual and an ideal, n
目次
- The Bambatha Rebellion (1906)
- the Boer Rebellion (1914)
- the strikes of 1913-1914 and the 'Rand Revolt' of 1922
- white political conflict in the twenties and thirties
- black rural unrest in the twenties
- internal implications of World War II and its prelude
- black urban protest in the forties
- black urban protest in the early fifties. Appendices: List of potential novels
- biographical information of writers
- alphabetical list of fictional authors discussed.
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