Grounds of engagement : apartheid-era African American and South African writing /
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Author / Creator: | Robolin, Stéphane Pierre Raymond, 1975- author. |
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Imprint: | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015] |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
Language: | English |
Series: | New Black studies series New Black studies series. |
Subject: | South African literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism. South African literature (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism. American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. American literature -- African American authors. South African literature -- Black authors. South African literature (English) -- Black authors. Electronic books. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11247103 |
Summary: | Part literary history, part cultural study, Grounds of Engagement examines the relationships and exchanges between black South African and African American writers who sought to create common ground throughout the antiapartheid era. Stéphane Robolin argues that the authors' geographic imaginations crucially defined their individual interactions and, ultimately, the literary traditions on both sides of the Atlantic. Subject to the tyranny of segregation, authors such as Richard Wright, Bessie Head, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Michelle Cliff, and Richard Rive charted their racialized landscapes and invented freer alternative geographies. They crafted rich representations of place to challenge the stark social and spatial arrangements that framed their lives. Those representations, Robolin contends, also articulated their desires for black transnational belonging and political solidarity. The first book to examine U.S. and South African literary exchanges in spatial terms, Grounds of Engagement identifies key moments in the understudied history of black cross-cultural exchange and exposes how geography serves as an indispensable means of shaping and reshaping modern racial meaning. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780252039478 9780252097584 0252097580 0252039475 |