Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970–1995

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Edited by Derek Attridge, University of York, Rosemary Jolly, Queen's University, Ontario

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: July 2011
Print publication year:: 1998
Online ISBN:: 9780511586286
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511586286

Subjects:: Area Studies, Computational Linguistics, African Studies, Language and Linguistics

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During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's relation to politics and ethics. Writing South Africa offers a window on the literary activity of this extraordinary period that conveys its range (going well beyond a handful of world-renowned names) and its significance for anyone interested in the impact of decolonisation and democratisation on the cultural sphere. It brings together for the first time discussions by some of the most distinguished South African novelists, poets, and dramatists, with those of leading commentators based in South Africa, Britain and North America.

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Writing South Africa

Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970–1995

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Contributors
pp vii-x

Acknowledgements and note on references
pp xi-xii

South Africa, 1930–1996: a chronology
pp xiii-xv

Maps
pp xvi-xviii

1 - Introduction
pp 1-13

2 - Interrogating silence: new possibilities faced by South African literature
pp 14-28

3 - I am dead: you cannot read: André Brink's On the Contrary
pp 29-42

4 - Endings and new beginning: South African fiction in transition
pp 43-56

5 - The post-apartheid sublime: rediscovering the extraordinary
pp 57-74

6 - Postmodernism and black writing in South Africa
pp 75-90

7 - Shame and identity: the case of the coloured in South Africa
pp 91-107

8 - A man's world: South African gay writing and the State of Emergency
pp 108-122

9 - The final safari: on nature, myth, and the literature of the Emergency
pp 123-140

10 - Interview
pp 141-148

11 - Speech and silence in the fictions of J.M.Coetzee
pp 149-165

12 - ‘Dialogue’ and ‘fulfilment’ in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron
pp 166-179

13 - Interview
pp 180-186

14 - Inside out: Jeremy Cronin's lyrical politics
pp 187-203

15 - Spinning out the present: narrative, gender, and the politics of South African theatre
pp 204-220

16 - South African theatre in the United States: the allure of the familiar and of the exotic
pp 221-236

Position papers
pp 237-238

17 - Preparing ourselves for freedom
pp 239-248

18 - Challenges facing theatre practitioners in the new South Africa
pp 249-256

19 - Current trends in Theatre for Development in South Africa
pp 257-264

Select bibliography: South African literary writing in English, 1970–1995
pp 265-276

Index
pp 277-288

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