Rewriting Modernity Studies in Black South African Literary History

Name: Rewriting Modernity Studies in Black South African Literary History
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ISBN: 9780821417119

ISBN-10: 0821417118

ISBN-13: 9780821417119

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Attwell

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Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History connects the black literary archive in South Africa--from the nineteenth-century writing of Tiyo Soga to Zakes Mda in the twenty-first century--to international postcolonial studies via the theory of transculturation, a position adapted from the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz. David Attwell provides a welcome complication of the linear black literary history--literature as a reflection of the process of political emancipation--that is so often presented. He focuses on cultural transactions in a series of key moments and argues that black writers in South Africa have used print culture to map themselves onto modernity…

Book details

List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 7/26/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 246
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English