On literary attachment in South Africa : tough love /

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Author / Creator:	Chapman, Michael (Michael J. F.), author.
Imprint:	New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. ©2022
Description:	198 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge research in postcolonial literatures Routledge research in postcolonial literatures.
Subject:	South African literature (English) -- History and criticism. South African literature -- History and criticism. South African literature. South African literature (English) Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12574618

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ISBN:	9781032008820 1032008822 9781032064475 1032064471 9781003176237 9781000431797 9781000431759
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book reflects on the 'literary' in literature. Whether oral expression, Nobel laureates, or the rupturing event, the study adopts a style of intimacy to both its African locality and the wider Anglophone world: the world to which literature in South Africa continues to belong, albeit as a 'problem child'"--
Other form:	ebook version : 9781000431797

Table of Contents:

Introduction
André Brink, Mevrou Sadie, and Me: our crooked-line stories
Bushman Letters/Bushman Literature: usable and unusable pasts
Schreiner's Karoo, Blackburn's Jo'burg: a literary journey, then and now
A School Person in a Red Blanket: the case of S.E.K. Mqhayi
Lewis Nkosi: ambiguities of home and exile
The Potential and Limitations of Symptomatic Criticism: Ruth Miller's poetry
Who Wins a Nobel Prize? Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee
Who Doesn't Win a Nobel Prize? Gordimer, Coetzee, Bosman, Head
The Power of ...Nelson Mandela: a literary consideration
The Science of Poetry and the Poetry of Science: Douglas Livingstone's uncommon humanity
To Be a Coconut: Kopano Matlwa to the Bard of Avon
#RhodesMustFall!: on literary attachment and the rupturing event.

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