This book shows how South African writing can help us to understand
change after apartheid. It aims to shift the attention of literary
criticism away from a narrow set of highbrow South African authors
and towards a wider range of texts, including popular fiction. The
object of analysis, at its largest level, is the South African
polity as it veered between the hopeful optimism of the 'Rainbow
nation' under Nelson Mandela, the murderous muddling of Thabo
Mbeki, and the 'captured state' under Jacob Zuma. Questions of a
political, economic, and sociological cast are central, with
changes in the workplace, land reform, indigenous knowledge,
xenophobia, corruption, and crime providing specific points of
focus. Writing, Politics and Change in South Africa after Apartheid
shows how creative literature of the post-apartheid period has a
unique and powerful capacity to illuminate these issues and to
intervene in our understanding of them.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
May 2023 |
Authors: |
Christopher Warnes
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Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
300 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-00-930736-9 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-00-930736-3 |
Barcode: |
9781009307369 |
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