Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945

Name: Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945
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ISBN: 9780231130462

ISBN-10: 0231130465

ISBN-13: 9780231130462

Edition: 2009

Authors: Gareth Cornwell, Dirk Klopper, Craig Mackenzie

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South Africa's history has from the outset been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid. Because apartheid intruded on every aspect of private and public life, South African literature was preoccupied with, and formed and deformed by, the politics of race and the human cost of social engineering.Since the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990, South Africa has been a new nation-in-the-making, inspired by a nonracial idealism yet beset by poverty and violence. South African writers have responded in various ways to the Njabulo Ndebele's call to shrug off an inherited…

Book details

List price: $100.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/13/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 0.72" wide x 1.01" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Preface


Chronology


South African Literature in English Since 1945: Long Walk to Ordinariness



Authors A-Z



Writers Before 1945


Bibliography


Index