A world of letters retrieves an important but largely forgotten
history of readers, reading practices and cultural debates in early
apartheid South Africa. Corinne Sandwith pursues this history in
the ephemeral spaces of oppositional newspapers, literary
magazines, debating societies and theatre groups. What emerges from
the diverse fragments is a rich tradition of public debate in South
Africa on literature and culture. What also surfaces are a host of
readers and critics – such as A.C. Jordan, Dora Taylor, Jack Cope
and Ben Kies – whose lively cultural interventions form a
significant part of South Africa’s literary-cultural and
socio-political heritage. Offering a combination of historical
narrative, critical analysis and biography, this elegantly written
book recovers these neglected reading and debating communities in
order to bring them into the present and to reclaim their
constitutive role in both the literary archive and the public
sphere.
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