Southern African literatures /
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| Author / Creator: | Chapman, Michael (Michael J. F.) 1945- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Longman, 1996. |
| Description: | xxix, 533 p. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Longman literature in English series. |
| Subject: | Southern African literature -- History and criticism. Southern African literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2418808 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Map of Southern Africa
- Countries of Southern Africa
- A Note on Racial Terminology, Orthography and Conventions
- A Note on Translated Works
- Abbreviations/Acronyms
- Introduction: Writing Literary History in Southern Africa
- Part 1. Oral Tradition: A Usable Past
- Introduction to Part One
- Chapter 1. Bushman (San) Songs and Stories
- Recovering voices: the Bleek and Lloyd Collection
- Mood Songs. !Kaha of the Kalahari
- Creation myths, folk-tales, testimonies. [double vertical line]Kabbo's story
- Bushman projects, Khoi projects. Draghoender's lament
- Chapter 2. African (Bantu) Songs, Stories, Praises
- Separatist church songs. The 'Kamuzu' songs of Malawi
- Proverbs, orations, creation myths, folk-tales. Lydia umkaSetemba's recitations
- An 'African' aesthetic: a chief is a chief by the people
- The praise poem: a usable past? Shaka's court to the trade-union rally
- Part 2. Writing of European Settlement: South Africa 1652-1910
- Introduction to Part Two
- Chapter 1. Images of Africa, 1652-1820
- Adamastor and the savage land
- Dutch records and Afrikaner identity
- British occupation. Barrow's travels, Lady Anne Barnard's letters
- Chapter 2. The Story of Frontier, 1820s-1870s
- Settler opinion, trekker opinion. The periodical press
- Pringle's African Sketches (1834)
- The 1820s and the liberal tradition
- The Xhosa legacy from Ntsikana to Mandela
- Chapter 3. Anglicisation and the Afrikaans Language Movements, 1875-1930
- Popular sentiment. Du Toit, Preller, Langenhoven
- Literary sensibility. Marais, Leipoldt, Totius
- Chapter 4. The Story of the Colony. Fiction, 1880-
- The heart of darkness from Rider Haggard to Wilbur Smith
- Schreiner's colonial crisis
- Blackburn's Bulalie comes to Joburg
- Part 3. African or Colonial Literature: 1880s to 1960s
- Introduction to Part Three
- Chapter 1. The Colonial Past in the Independent State
- Ethnography and journalism in the Portuguese colonies
- African-language literature in the British colonies
- Rhodesian, Counter-Rhodesian, Zimbabwean Fiction. Cripps. Lessing. Samkange
- The Mambo Book of Zimbabwean Verse in English. Constructing a Tradition
- Chapter 2. Belonging and Belief in South Africa, 1910-1948. Europe and Africa
- From segregation to apartheid
- Black's satire: the popular white voice
- High art and social responsibility. Campbell. Plomer. Van der Post
- Tales of rural communities. Smith. Bosman. The plaasroman
- Afrikaans, a literary language. Poetry from Van Wyk Louw to Opperman
- Chapter 3. Belonging and Belief in South Africa, 1910-1948. Africa and Europe
- Ubuntu. The case of Mqhayi
- The early African literary elite. Popular alternatives. Plaatje. Mofolo. Jordan. Shembe. The Lucky Stars
- The 'new African' and the old story: H. I. E. Dhlomo. Vilakazi. Noni Jabavu
- Chapter 4. Identity and the Apartheid State, 1948-1970
- Retribalising the Bantu. The Freedom Charter
- Poetry and liberal sensibility. Butler. Miller. Clouts
- Novels against apartheid. Abrahams. Paton
- Seeking a perspective. Jacobson. Early Gordimer
- Drum magazine and stories of city experience. Themba. Mphahlele. King Kong
- Black autobiography. Modisane. Mphahlele
- The silent decade. Sestigers. Brutus, La Guma and exile. Political testimony
- Part 4. Commissioned by the Nation, Commissioned by the Society. Independence, Post-Independence
- Introduction to Part Four
- Chapter 1. Malawi and Zambia: The Writer in the One-party State
- Banda and Kaunda
- Zambian humanism. Stories and journalism
- Zambian theatre. Dissent and development
- Malawian writers, censorship and the 'university' style. Poetry from Rubadiri to Mapanje
- Malawi's popular voice
- Chapter 2. Angola and Mozambique. National Ideals and Pragmatic Realities
- The generation of the 1950s. Neto, Jacinto, Craveirinha, de Sousa, and others
- Poetry of combat, 1960-1975
- Storytelling and local speech. Vieira to Couto
- Chapter 3. Zimbabwe: the Unified Nation or the Functioning Society?
- Rhodesia and Zimbabwe
- Chimurenga songs
- The legacy of war. Mungoshi, Marechera, Zimunya
- 'Remaking the world'. Hove, Chinodya, Dangarembga
- Theatre and the public sphere
- The Mugabe government
- Chapter 4. Namibia: Making a Literature
- The 'wild south-west' of colonial imagination
- Namibian voices from Witbooi to Diescho
- Part 5. Writing in the Interregnum: South Africa, 1970-1995
- Introduction to Part Five
- Chapter 1. Black Consciousness and White Africans
- New black poetry. Mtshali, Serote, Sepamla, Gwala
- Biko and Turner: recasting the white state
- Poetry by white Africans. Livingstone, Breytenbach and others
- Chapter 2. The Black Theatre Model. Towards an Aesthetic of South African Theatre
- Black Consciousness and the popular play
- Minority and majority theatre. The performing arts councils to the worker play
- Mda and Fugard. Literary playwrights and the black theatre model
- Sarafina!: the seriousness of popular response
- Chapter 3. The Story of Community: A Resilient Tradition
- Seeking a community in Staffrider
- Matshoba: the storyteller as teacher
- Stories of the collective and isolated self. Tlali, Kuzwayo, Gordimer, Aucamp, Ndebele and others
- Bessie Head: the telling of unexceptional tales
- Chapter 4. The Truth of Fiction and the Fiction of Truth: Writing Novels in the Interregnum
- Gordimer, Coetzee and Soweto novels
- Anxieties of influence and journalistic demands. Ebersohn, Schoeman, Joubert, Miles, Stockenstrom and others
- Brink: the internationalism of the Afrikaner rebel
- The novel in a state of emergency
- Chapter 5. The State of Emergency, the New South Africa
- Historical memory and the 'apartheid era'
- Poetry and prose in the 1980s: the high word to the low mimetic. Cronin, Krog, Black Afrikaans poets, Goosen
- Criticism and local challenges: The indigenised intellectual. Feminism. Children's literature
- The liberated zone: politics and polemics
- Southern African Literatures: literary history and civil society
- Part 6. Further References
- Chronology
- Literature and Historical/Cultural Events in Southern Africa
- General Bibliographies
- i). Bibliographies, dictionaries
- ii). Descriptive, thematic, critical, theoretical surveys
- iii). Fiction
- iv). Poetry
- v). Drama
- vi). Scholarly journals
- Individual Authors--notes on biography, works and criticism
- Index
