Writing South Africa : literature, apartheid, and democracy, 1970-1995 /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Description:	xv, 288 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	South African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Politics and literature -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century. Literature and society -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century. Apartheid in literature. Race relations in literature. Apartheid in literature. Literature and society. Politics and government Politics and literature. Race relations in literature. South African literature. South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1948-1994. South Africa. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2955176

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Other authors / contributors:	Attridge, Derek. Jolly, Rosemary Jane, 1963-
ISBN:	0521592186 0521597684 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-276) and index.

Table of Contents:

Contributors
Acknowledgements and note on references
South Africa, 1970-1996: a chronology
Maps
1. Introduction
2. Interrogating silence: new possibilities faced by South African literature
3. I am dead: you cannot read: Andre Brink's On the Contrary
4. Endings and new beginning: South African fiction in transition
5. The post-apartheid sublime: rediscovering the extraordinary
6. Postmodernism and black writing in South Africa
7. Shame and identity: the case of the coloured in South Africa
8. A man's world: South African gay writing and the State of Emergency
9. The final safari: on nature, myth, and the literature of the Emergency
10. Interview
11. Speech and silence in the fictions of J. M. Coetzee
12. 'Dialogue' and 'fulfilment' in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron
13. Interview
14. Inside out: Jeremy Cronin's lyrical politics
15. Spinning out the present: narrative, gender, and the politics of South African theatre
16. South African theatre in the United States: the allure of the familiar and of the exotic
Position papers
17. Preparing ourselves for freedom
18. Challenges facing theatre practitioners in the new South Africa
19. Current trends in Theatre for Development in South Africa
Select bibliography: South African literary writing in English, 1970-1995
Index

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