Vicki Briault Manus

Emerging Traditions

Toward a Postcolonial Stylistics of Black South African Fiction in English

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Produktbeschreibung

The book, an academic monograph, is a comprehensive study of the socio-linguistics of black South African literature in English from its beginnings, grounded in historical and political change as befits a postcolonial approach, with the inherent struggles between language and power. Its innovation is that it traces stylistic devices used by successive generations of black writers back to such sources as African orature, indigenous cultures and languages, and indigenization and creolization of South African languages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9780739148075
• ISBN-10: 0739148079
• Artikelnr.: 33156705

Autorenporträt

By Vicki Briault Manus

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter I: A Period of Optimism
(1795-1910): Literacy as the Path to Equality Chapter 3 Chapter II:
Disillusionment Sets In (1910-1948): Black Englishmen and Urban Natives:
First Signs of Indigenization Chapter 4 Chapter III: Under Control
(1948-1960): Tsotsis, Tough-talking Journalists from the Urban Ghetto and
the Post-Creole Continuum Chapter 5 Chapter IV: Dislocation (1960-1976):
Colored or Creole? Writing 'Between Two Fires' in the Sixties Chapter 6
Chapter V: Deadlock (1976-1990): The Old is Dying and the New Cannot be
Born Chapter 7 Chapter VI: Breakthrough (1990 and after): Multiple
Identities and "Emerging Traditions" Chapter 8 Conclusion