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In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa - by Graham Pechey (Hardcover)
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In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa - by Graham Pechey (Hardcover)
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The distinguished South African scholar and critic Graham Pechey
was one of the leading voices in the debates about literature's
role in the apartheid state, and he continued to reflect
influentially on its importance and function after the
establishment of democracy. Pechey died in 2016 without putting the
finishing touches on a book on South African literature and culture
that had been some twenty years in the making. He wrote on a wide
range of South African literature across the racial divide and
across periods, combining an acute sense of the historical and
geopolitical situation of South African writing with a sensitive
ear to the workings of the literary; he was thus able to do justice
to both the singular grain of individual works and their broad
political and cultural implications. This collection brings
together the most significant of these essays, organised in a way
that reflects his major concerns. Topics addressed include the role
of culture in the transition from apartheid to democracy, the
specificity of English as a literary medium in South Africa, the
freedom of the artist in an authoritarian state, and the global
trajectory of South African words. Among the authors discussed are
Olive Schreiner, Njabulo Ndebele, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee,
William Plomer, F.T. Prince, and Roy Campbell.
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