Michael Chapman

Literary Transactions in South Africa

A Politics of Interpretation

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Produktbeschreibung

"This study's purpose - its politics of interpretation - is to open literature to the potential of human experience in both the personal and the public life. The society of focus - South Africa - is a society of political contestation. Instead of prioritizing the what of contestation, however, the author explores contestation through the how of the literary work. Through the works of writers like J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Roy Campbell and Mtutuzeli Matshoba, the book pursues the challenge of interpreting a literature of disjuncture between Africa and the West, or the South and the North"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9798765122761
• Artikelnr.: 70966377

Autorenporträt

Michael Chapman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Literature in History
1. The 'Oral' in the South of Africa: Usable Pasts, Translation,
Transaction
2. Thomas Pringle, An 'Unsettling' Settler: Literature in History
3. Africanism and Westernism: Interpreting, Evaluating S. E. K. Mqhayi
Part II. Styles of the Times
4. The Best of Modernism and the Worst of Modernism: Roy Campbell, A
Politically Incorrect Poet
5. Gender-based Abuse, the Sophiatown Shebeens, and Presentism in Can
Themba's Stories Beyond 'The Suit'
6. The Story of Community: 'To be less than an artist to be more than an
artist'
7. Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee: An Aesthetics of Necessity
Part III. After Postcolonialism?
8. After Coetzee, After Postcolonialism: Writing Fiction, Interpreting
Fiction
9. Transactions of the Local and the Global: Writing, Interpreting Poetry
Notes
References
Index