This title considers what, in South Africa, is being published and
how we may value what is being published, now. 'Now' is not only
post-apartheid, or after the Truth Commission – the familiar
signposts – but beyond both Antjie Krog's Country of my Skull
(1998), the TRC marker, and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999), a book
that for many, including arguably its author, marks a point of no
return in its Afro-pessimism. Looking beyond 2000, these surveys of
fiction, drama, poetry and autobiographical writing include
coverage of poetry in English and Afrikaans, South African Indian
writing, Zulu literature, oral performance, 'queer' fiction and
literature of diasporic and ecological concern. Coverage does not
claim to constitute a history of the literature. Rather, the accent
is on a younger generation of writers, several of whom, such as
Phaswane Mpe, K. Sello Duiker, Brett Bailey, Gabeda Baderoon and
Lebo Mashile, have received critical recognition. Recent winners of
major literary awards like Anne Landsman, Imraan Coovadia and
Sally-Ann Murray feature in commentary of what is different now to
then. Many writers then, of course, continue to be writers now, and
the book does not ignore the more recent work of, among others,
Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Breyten Breytenbach, Antjie Krog,
Athol Fugard, Zakes Mda, Njabulo S. Ndebele, Marlene van Niekerk,
Zoё Wicomb and Ivan Vladislavic. SA Lit? The contraction points to
a provocation: what is South African Literature beyond 2000?
General
| Imprint: |
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
|
| Country of origin: |
South Africa |
| Release date: |
September 2011 |
| First published: |
September 2011 |
| Editors: |
Michael Chapman
• Margaret Lenta
|
| Dimensions: |
241 x 170 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
405 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-86914-212-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-86914-212-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781869142124 |
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