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. David 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 the context of
democracy.
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