SA Lit Beyond 2000

by Chapman, Michael; Lenta, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9781869142124
• ISBN10: 1869142128
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-01
• Publisher: University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press

Summary

This book considers what, in South Africa, is being published and how we may value what is being published, now. 'Now' is not only post-apartheid, or after the Truth Commission - the familiar signposts - but beyond both Antjie Krog's Country of my Skull (1998), the TRC marker, and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999), a book that for many, including arguably its author, marks a point of no return in its Afro-pessimism.

Author Biography

Michael Chapman is a senior professor of English and research fellow and Margaret Lenta is an emeritus professor and senior research associate, both at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: SA Lit beyond 2000?	p. 1
The End of 'South African' Literary History? Judging 'National' Fiction in a Transnational Era	p. 19
Expanding 'South Africanness': Debut Novels	p. 50
On the Street with Vladislavic, Mhlongo, Moele and Others	p. 69
Breaking the Silence: Black and White Women's Writing	p. 97
Silenced by Freedom? Nadine Gordimer after Apartheid	p. 119
Reconciling Acts: Theatre beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission	p. 137
The Road That Calls: From Poor Theatre to Theatres of Excess	p. 159
'Sequestered from the winds of history': Poetry and Politics	p. 177
Of 'Chisels' and 'Jack Hammers': Afrikaans Poetry 2000-2009
Antjie Krog: Towards a Syncretic Identity
Technauriture: Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Performance	p. 243
Family Albums and Statements from the Dock of History: Autobiographical Writing 1999-2009 Annie Gagiano	p. 259
Healing the "Wounds of History: South African Indian Writing	p. 283
Zulu Literature: New Beginnings	p. 299
Representing the African Diaspora: Coetzee, Breytenbach, Gordimer, Mda, Pinnock	p. 315
Postcolonial Pomosexuality: Queer/Alternative Fiction after Disgrace	p. 335
Literature and Ecology in Southern Africa	p. 353
Contributors	p. 373
Index	p. 377
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