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The Worlding Of The South African Novel
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Author : Jane Poyner
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-08-20
The Worlding Of The South African Novel written by Jane Poyner and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Worlding of the South African Novel develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transition from apartheid to democracy, little in South Africa’s socio-economic reality has actually changed. Poyner discusses how the contemporary South African novel engages with this reality. In forms of literary experiment, the novels open up intellectual spaces shaping or contesting the idea of the “new South Africa”. The mediatising of truth at the TRC hearings, how best to deal with a spectacular yet covert past, the shaping for “unimagined communities” of an inclusive public sphere, HIV/AIDS as the preeminent site testing capitalist modernity, white anxieties about land reform, disease as environmental injustice and the fostering of an enabling restorative cultural memory: Poyner argues that through these key nodes of intellectual thought, the novels speak to recent debates on world-literature to register the “shock” of an uneven modernity produced by a capitalist world economy.
A World Of Strangers
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Author : Nadine Gordimer
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-03-15
A World Of Strangers written by Nadine Gordimer and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with Fiction categories.
Toby Hood, a young Englishman, shuns the politics and the causes his liberal parents passionately support. Living in Johannesburg as a representative of his family's publishing company, Toby moves easily, carelessly, between the complacent wealthy white suburbs and the seething, vibrantly alive black townships. His friends include a wide variety of people, from mining directors to black journalists and musicians, and Toby's colonial-style weekends are often interspersed with clandestine evenings spent in black shanty towns. Toby's friendship with Steven Sithole, a dashing, embittered young African, touches him in ways he never thought possible, and when Steven's own sense of independence from the rules of society leads to tragedy, Toby's life is changed forever.
The Late Bourgeois World
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Author : Nadine Gordimer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-03-28
The Late Bourgeois World written by Nadine Gordimer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-28 with Fiction categories.
Liz Van Den Sandt's ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for a failed act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his colleagues. Now Liz has been asked to perform a direct service for the Black Nationalist movement, at considerable danger to herself. Can she take such a risk in the face of Max's example of the uselessness of such actions? Yet ... how can she not?
World Without End
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Author : Edwin Dunn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
World Without End written by Edwin Dunn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Apartheid categories.
"Set in the Free State town of Welkom, South Africa in the 1980s at the height of the apartheid regime, World Without End chronicles the lives of mine workers during a time of intense change, both personal and political. Jed Rawlings, working in the personnel department of the mine, and newly married to Henrietta, becomes embroiled in developments following the announcement that mining staff have joined the national union. Unwillingly thrown into the role of chief negotiator, Jed witnesses at first hand the effects of union activity on a conservative and right-wing mining community. Adding to complications, he falls in love with Lizella, the mine manager's secretary. As events develop, Jed witnesses the effects of the apartheid system on his Black colleagues, with sometimes devastating consequences."--
Cruel Crazy Beautiful World
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Author : Troy Blacklaws
language : en
Publisher: Jacana Media
Release Date : 2011
Cruel Crazy Beautiful World written by Troy Blacklaws and has been published by Jacana Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with South Africa categories.
The World Beneath
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Author : Janice Warman
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2016-05-24
The World Beneath written by Janice Warman and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-24 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
At the height of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle, a boy must face life decisions that test what he believes—and call for no turning back. South Africa, 1976. Joshua lives with his mother in the maid’s room, in the backyard of their wealthy white employers’ house in the city by the sea. He doesn’t quite understand the events going on around him. But when he rescues a stranger and riots begin to sweep the country, Joshua has to face the world beneath—the world deep inside him—to make heartbreaking choices that will change his life forever. Genuine and quietly unflinching, this beautifully nuanced novel from a veteran journalist captures a child’s-eye view of the struggle that shaped a nation and riveted the world.
No Time Like The Present
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Author : Nadine Gordimer
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2013-02-05
No Time Like The Present written by Nadine Gordimer and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-05 with Fiction categories.
"A perfect example of what literature can give us that history books cannot."—Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Steve and Jabulile, once clandestine lovers under a racist law forbidding sexual relations between black and white, are living in a newly free South Africa. Both were combatants in the struggle against apartheid, and now, he, a university lecturer, and she, a lawyer, are parents of children born in freedom. But as the ideals of this "better life for all" are challenged by the realities of the world around them, Steve and Jabulile consider leaving the country they so vehemently fought to free. The subject in No Time Like the Present is contemporary, but Nadine Gordimer's treatment is, as ever, timeless. In the telling of this conflicted couple, she captures the fragmented essence of a nation.
South African Literature S Russian Soul
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Author : Jeanne-Marie Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-10-22
South African Literature S Russian Soul written by Jeanne-Marie Jackson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of intense social and political upheaval? South African Literature's Russian Soul charts the interplay of narrative innovation and political isolation in two of the world's most renowned non-European literatures. In this book, Jeanne-Marie Jackson demonstrates how Russian writing's “Golden Age” in the troubled nineteenth-century has served as a model for South African writers both during and after apartheid. Exploring these two isolated literary cultures alongside each other, the book challenges the limits of "global" methodologies in contemporary literary studies and outdated models of center-periphery relations to argue for a more locally involved scale of literary enquiry with more truly global horizons.
Nadine Gordimer Revisited
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Author : Barbara Temple-Thurston
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1999
Nadine Gordimer Revisited written by Barbara Temple-Thurston and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, is one of Africa's most distinguished writers of novels, short stories, essays, and book reviews. A South African citizen who remained in that country through the bitterly racist years of apartheid, she gained a reputation for her political activism, particularly her championing of human rights. In this appraisal of Gordimer's twelve novels, Barbara Temple-Thurston stresses the writer's enduring quality as an artist beyond the confines of the politics of apartheid.
On Literary Attachment In South Africa
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Author : Michael Chapman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-09-01
On Literary Attachment In South Africa written by Michael Chapman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book reflects on the "literary" in literature. Less ideologically construed, more affirmative of literary attachment, the study adopts a style of intimacy – its "tough love" – in a correlation between the creative work and the critical act. Instead of configuring literary works to "state-of-the-nation" issues – the usual approach to literature from South Africa – the chapters keep alive a space for conversation, whether accented inwards to locality or outwards to the Anglophone world: the world to which literature in South Africa continues to belong, albeit as a "problem child". A postcolony that is not quite a postcolony, South Africa is richly but frustratingly textured between Africa and the West, or the South and the North. Its literature – hovering on the cusp of its locality and its global reach – raises peculiar questions of reader reception, epistemological and aesthetic frame, and archival use. Are the Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee local writers or global writers? Is the novel or the short story the more appropriate form at the edges of metropolitan cultures? Given language, race, and culture contestation, how do we recover Bushman expression for contemporary use? How to consider the aesthetic appeal of two contemporaneous works, one in English the other in isiXhosa, the one indebted to Bloomsbury modernism the other to African custom? How does Douglas Livingstone attach the Third World to the First World in both science and poetry? What has a "born free" novelist, Kopano Matlwa, got to do with the Bard of Avon? In a time of theorisation, is it permissible for Lewis Nkosi to embody literary criticism in an autobiographical journey? How to read the rupturing event – the statue of Rhodes must fall – through a literary sensibility? Alert to the influence of critique, the study is equally alert to the "limits of critique". Reflecting on several writers, works, and events that do not feature in current publications, On Literary Attachment in South Africa releases literature to speak to us today, within the contours of its originating energy.