Peter D McDonald

The Literature Police

Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Uncovers the tangled stories of censorship and literature in apartheid South Africa, drawing on a wealth of new evidence from censorship archives, archives of resistance publishers and writers' groups, and oral testimony. A unique perspective on one of the most repressive, anachronistic, and racist states in the post-war era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 139mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780199591114
• ISBN-10: 0199591113
• Artikelnr.: 30207034

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Note to the Reader
* Part I: Creating Spaces/Guarding Borders
* 1: Censors
* 2: Publishers
* 3: Writers
* Part II: Singular Situations/Disruptive Moments
* 1: Nadine Gordimer and the Strength of African Fiction
* 2: Afrikan versus Volks Humanism: Es'kia Mphahlele's Worldly Music
and the Transcendent Space of Culture
* 3: Connected versus Internal Critics: Breytenbach, Leroux and the
Volk Avant Garde
* 4: BLAC Books, Black (Anti-)Poetics
* 5: J. M. Coetzee: The Provincial Storyteller
* 6: Protest and Beyond: Third-World People's Stories in the
Staffrider Series
* Postscript
* Acknowledgements
* Chronology
* Bibliography