Rewriting Modernity - Studies in Black South African Literary History (Paperback)

Rewriting Modernity: Studies in black South African literary history connects the black literary archive in South Africa - from the nineteenth-century writing of Tiyo Soga to Zakes Mda in the twenty-first century - to international postcolonial studies via the theory of transculturation, a position adapted from the Cuban anthropologist, Fernando Ortiz. Attwell provides a welcome complication of the linear black literary history - literature as a reflection of the process of political emancipation - that is so often presented. He focuses on cultural transactions in a series of key moments and argues that black writers in South Africa have used print culture to map themselves onto modernity as contemporary subjects, to negotiate, counteract, reinvent and recast their positioning within colonialism, apartheid and in the context of democracy.

General

Imprint:	University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	July 2005
First published:	November 2005
Authors:	David Attwell
Dimensions:	229 x 149 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	236
ISBN-13:	978-1-86914-074-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	1-86914-074-5
Barcode:	9781869140748

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