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Altered state? : writing and South Africa

Title
Altered state? : writing and South Africa / edited by Elleke Boehmer, Laura Chrisman, Kenneth Parker.
Publication
Sydney : Dangaroo Press, c1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-
  • Chrisman, Laura.
  • Parker, Kenneth, 1932-
Description
xx, 137 p.; 22 cm.
Subject
  • South African literature (English) > 20th century > History and criticism
  • South African literature (English) > Political aspects
  • Politics and culture > South Africa
  • Politics and literature > South Africa
  • Apartheid in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Liberation and the crisis of culture / Ndjabulo Ndebele -- Some provisional speculations on the critique of "resistance" literature -- "Cultural struggle" and the narratives of South African freedom / Graham Pechey -- Constructing the "cross-border" reader / Lewis Nkosi -- The short story in South Africa 1960-1989 / Stephen Finn -- The function of the dystopic family in the fiction of Joy Packer / John Stotesbury -- Trains as tropes : the role of the railway in some South African literary texts / Michael Wade -- Serote's cities : (de-)constructing South African urban space / Jane Wilkonson -- Double dispossession : J.M. Coetzee's Foe and the postcolonial and feminist agendas / Pamela Dunbar -- Black South African countrywomen in Lauretta Ngcobo's long prose works / Brian Worsfold -- South African drama and ideology : the case of Athol Fugard / Dennis Walder.
ISBN
1871049725 (pbk) :
LCCN
gb 94034701
OCLC
  • ocm30514853
  • SCSB-2038926
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library