Momentum On Recent South African Writing

Name: Momentum On Recent South African Writing
Price: 22.51 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780869803776

ISBN-10: 0869803778

ISBN-13: 9780869803776

Edition: N/A

Authors: M. J. Daymond, J. U. Jacobs, Margaret Lenta

List price: $11.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

1 new & used from $22.51

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

MOMENTUM sees writing in South Africa after Soweto '76 as being of two kinds: the artefact (novels, plays or poetry) and the manifesto (the artist's statement about the shaping power of events in this country on his or her work). Another kind of division is also operative in South African literature: the writings of those who live here and the writings of those who live abroad - our exiles. Because there are at least these two kinds of divisions in our literature, MOMENTUM takes the shape it does. It combines writers' statements (from home and abroad) about their work with critical discussion of that work. This combination is unique in South African publishing and its effect is to allow the…

Book details

List price: $11.95
Publisher: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press
Publication date: 6/1/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.66" long
Weight: 1.364
Language: English