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Southern African literatures (Paperback, 2nd ed)
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Southern African literatures (Paperback, 2nd ed)
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Southern African Literatures is a major study of the work of
writers from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Angola,
Mozambique and Namibia, written at a time of crucial change in the
subcontinent. It covers a wide range of work from the storytelling
of stone-age Bushmen to modern writing by renowned figures such as
Es'kia Mphahlele, Nadine Gordimer and Andr Brink, encompassing
traditional, popular and elite writing; literature in translation;
and case studies based on topical issues. Michael Chapman argues
that literary history in the southern African region is best based
on a comparative method which, while respecting differences of
language, race and social circumstance, seeks cultural interchange
including "translations" of experience across linguistic and ethnic
borders. Instead of perpetuating division, the study examines
points of common reference, as it asks what makes a literary
culture. Who are to be regarded as major and minor authors? What
are the strengths and limita
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