A History of South African Literature African Edition Paperback - Softcover

Heywood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052161595X ISBN 13: 9780521615952

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Hist south african lit african edit pb editado por Cambridge

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"South Africa's rich and complex history comes to life in this comprehensive account...an impressive authority...the sheer variety of style and form that Heywood encompasses in his criticism is extraordinary." - Times Literary Supplement

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This title is the first critical study of its subject, from colonial and pre-colonial times to the present. The author discusses selected poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. The discussion includes over 100 authors and selected works, including poets from Mqhayi, Marais and Campbell to Butler, Serote and Krog, theatre writers from Boniface and Black to Fugard and Mda, and fiction writers from Schreiner and Plaatje to Bessie Head and the Nobel prizewinners Gordimer and Coetzee. The literature is explored in the setting of crises leading to the formation of modern South Africa, notably the rise and fall of the Emperor Shaka's Zulu kingdom, the Colenso crisis, industrialisation, the colonial and post-colonial wars of 1899, 1914, and 1939, and the dissolution of apartheid society. In Heywood's magisterial study, South African literature emerges as among the great literatures of the modern world.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 052161595X
• ISBN 13: 9780521615952
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312