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South African writers

Title
South African writers / edited by Paul A. Scanlon.
Publication
Detroit, Mich : Gale Group, 2000.

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Additional Authors
Scanlon, Paul A.
Description
xx, 526 pages : illustrations; 29 cm.
Summary
Essays on South African writers from the South African War or Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) to the Act of Union in 1910, when the defeated Boer republics were joined together by British Parliament into what became modern South Africa. Discusses the beginnings of South Africa literature in English, as well as the impact the discovery of gold and diamonds had. Genres mentioned include travel books, hunter-adventure romances, and South African realist fiction.
Series Statement
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 225
Uniform Title
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 225.
Subject
  • South African literature (English) > Bio-bibliography > Dictionaries
  • Authors, South African > Biography > Dictionaries
  • Authors, South African
  • Schriftsteller
  • Biografie
  • Literatur
  • Wörterbuch
  • Schrijvers
  • Letterkunde
  • Südafrika (Staat)
  • Englisch
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Dictionaries.
  • Reference works.
  • Ouvrages de référence.
Note
  • "A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Peter Abrahams -- Herman Charles Bosman -- Breyten Breytenbach -- André Brink -- Dennis Brutus -- Guy Butler -- Roy Campbell -- Sydney Clouts -- J.M. Coetzee -- H.I.E. Dhlomo -- Ahmed Essop -- Athol Fugard -- Nadine Gordimer -- Bessie Head -- Christopher Hope -- Dan Jacobson -- Alex La Guma -- Douglas Livingstone -- Zakes Mda -- Sarah Gertrude Millin -- Thomas Mofolo -- Esʼkia (Ezekial) Mphahlele -- Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali -- Njabulo S. Ndebele -- Lewis Nkosi -- Arthur Nortje -- Alan Paton -- Sol T. Plaaje -- William Plomer -- Thomas Pringle -- Richard Rive -- Olive Schreiner -- Sipho Sepamla -- Mongane Wally Serote -- Pauline Smith -- Miriam Tlali -- Zoë Wicomb.
ISBN
  • 0787631345
  • 9780787631345
  • 0787631310
  • 9780787631314
LCCN
00035446
OCLC
  • ocm43567614
  • 43567614
  • SCSB-1138448
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library