South African Textual Cultures White, Black, Read all Over

by Van der Vlies, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780719076145
• ISBN10: 0719076145
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-01
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

"Nation" and "literature" are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005, asking: who published what, where, why. Exploring new approaches to studying colonial and postcolonial print cultures, it seeks to redress inadequately historicized or transnationally situated studies of South African writing in English. The book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in South African, African, and general colonial and postcolonial literatures and history, as well as those with an interest print and media cultures, and the History of the Book.

Author Biography

Andrew van der Vlies is lecturer in Anglophone Postcolonial Literature and Theory in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of abbreviations	p. xiv
Introduction: South African textual cultures	p. 1
Farming stories (I): Olive Schreiner's fates	p. 20
'Hurled by what aim to what tremendous range!': Roy Campbell, William Plomer and the politics of reputation	p. 46
Whose Beloved Country? Alan Paton and the hypercanonical	p. 71
Alex La Guma's marginal aesthetics and the institutions of protest	p. 106
Farming stories (II): J. M. Coetzee and the (heart of a) country	p. 134
Zakes Mda's novel educations	p. 155
Afterword: white(s) and black(s), read all over	p. 174
Bibliography	p. 177
Index	p. 215
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