South African textual cultures

White, black, read all over

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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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, and how; how and why work was construed as 'South African', what this meant, and how it affected reading. Exploring new approaches to studying colonial and postcolonial print cultures, it seeks to redress inadequately historicised or transnationally situated studies of South African writing in English. The book is absolutely essential reading for anyone with an interest in the fields of 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-03-01
Mått156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt345 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9780719085659

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List of plates and figuresAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations1. South African textual cultures 2. Farming stories (I): Olive Schreiner’s fates3. ‘Hurled by what aim to what tremendous range’: Roy Campbell, William Plomer, & the politics of reputation 4. Whose Beloved Country? Alan Paton and the hypercanonical5. Alex La Guma’s marginal aesthetics and the institutions of protest6. Farming Stories (II): J. M. Coetzee & the (heart of a) country7. Zakes Mda’s novel educationsAfterword: white(s) and black(s), read all overBibliography Index

South African textual cultures is a wide-ranging study that traces out the ‘biographies’ of a number of important books (from Story of an African Farm to The Heart of Redness) on their journeys across national boundaries and through different historical moments. It is not enough, nor entirely accurate, to say that this is an important contribution to South African literary studies: South African textual cultures is, rather, the first major study to question the very category of ‘South African literature’ and to describe the process of its construction in a sustained, engaging, theoretically astute manner.Meticulously researched and eloquently argued, this book brings fresh perspectives to the study of South African - and African - literature, making detailed use of publishers’ archives and newspaper reviews to analyse the discourses and cultural networks in which literary texts are immersed. Van der Vlies usefully problematises the categories of the ‘global’ and the ‘national,’ and he draws attention to the diverse interpretive contexts in which anglophone South African literature is immersed. This book will provide inspiration to students and researchers, offering a methodology and a new set of questions for the study of postcolonial literatures.

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