Rewriting Modernity Studies in Black South African Literary History

Name: Rewriting Modernity Studies in Black South African Literary History
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ISBN: 9780821417126

ISBN-10: 0821417126

ISBN-13: 9780821417126

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 as…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 7/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English