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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Short stories, South African (English)
ISBN : 0195762509
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000054275
Author : Michael J. F. Chapman
Publisher : Ad Donker
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121559947
Author : Denis Hirson,Martin Trump
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0435906720
All by writers who spent their formative years in South Africa, this diverse range of short stories spans from the end of World War II when the National Party was on the upsurge, to the early 1990s when the legal framework of apartheid was abolished, the ANC was legalized and Mandela was released.
Author : Jean Marquard
Publisher : Ad Donker
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : IND:39000002707466
Author : David Medalie
Publisher : Witwatersrand University Press Publications
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073203734
Author : Craig MacKenzie
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004490376
This study deals with a particular kind of short story in South African English literature - a kind of story variously called the fireside tale, tall tale, skaz narrative or (the term used here) the 'oral-style' story. Most famously exemplified in the Oom Schalk Lourens narratives of Herman Charles Bosman, the oral-style story has its roots in the hunting tale and camp-fire yarn of the nineteenth century and has dozens of exponents in South African literature, most of them long forgotten. Here this neglect has been addressed. A.W. Drayson's Tales at the Outspan (1862) provides a point of departure, and is followed by discussions of works by William Charles Scully, Percy FitzPatrick, Ernest Glanville, Perceval Gibbon, Francis Carey Slater, Pauline Smith, and Aegidius Jean Blignaut, all of whom used the oral-style story genre. In the work of Herman Charles Bosman, however, the South African oral-style story comes into its own. In his Oom Schalk Lourens figure is invested all of the complexity and 'double-voicedness' that was latent - and largely dormant - in the earlier works. Bosman demonstrates his sophistication particularly in his metafictional use of the oral-style story. The study concludes with a discussion of the use of oral forms in the work of more recent black writers - among them Bessie Head, Mtutuzeli Matshoba, and Njabulo Ndebele.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004490710
The present volume is a highly comprehensive assessment of the postcolonial short story since the thirty-six contributions cover most geographical areas concerned. Another important feature is that it deals not only with exclusive practitioners of the genre (Mansfield, Munro), but also with well-known novelists (Achebe, Armah, Atwood, Carey, Rushdie), so that stimulating comparisons are suggested between shorter and longer works by the same authors. In addition, the volume is of interest for the study of aspects of orality (dialect, dance rhythms, circularity and trickster figure for instance) and of the more or less conflictual relationships between the individual (character or implied author) and the community. Furthermore, the marginalized status of women emerges as another major theme, both as regards the past for white women settlers, or the present for urbanized characters, primarily in Africa and India. The reader will also have the rare pleasure of discovering Janice Kulik Keefer's “Fox,” her version of what she calls in her commentary “displaced autobiography’” or “creative non-fiction.” Lastly, an extensive bibliography on the postcolonial short story opens up further possibilities for research.
Author : Graham K. Riach
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781835533932
The Short Story after Apartheid offers the first major study of the anglophone short story in South Africa since apartheid’s end. By focusing on the short story this book complicates models of South African literature dominated by the novel and contributes to a much-needed generic and formalist turn in postcolonial studies. Literary texts are sites of productive struggle between formal and extra-formal concerns, and these brief, fragmentary, elliptical, formally innovative stories offer perspectives that reframe or revise important concerns of post-apartheid literature: the aesthetics of engaged writing, the politics of the past, class and race, the legacies of violence, and the struggle over the land. Through an analysis of key texts from the period by Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes, this book assesses the place of the short story in post-apartheid writing and develops a fuller model of how artworks allow and disallow forms of social thought.
Author : Gareth Cornwell,Dirk Klopper,Craig MacKenzie
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231130462
From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid. Because apartheid intruded on every aspect of private and public life, South African literature was preoccupied with the politics of race and social engineering. Since the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990, South Africa has been a new nation-in-the-making, inspired by a nonracial idealism yet beset by poverty and violence. South African writers have responded in various ways to Njabulo Ndebele's call to "rediscover the ordinary." The result has been a kaleidoscope of texts in which evolving cultural forms and modes of identity are rearticulated and explored. An invaluable guide for general readers as well as scholars of African literary history, this comprehensive text celebrates the multiple traditions and exciting future of the South African voice. Although the South African Constitution of 1994 recognizes no fewer than eleven official languages, English has remained the country's literary lingua franca. This book offers a narrative overview of South African literary production in English from 1945 to the postapartheid present. An introduction identifies the most interesting and noteworthy writing from the period. Alphabetical entries provide accurate and objective information on genres and writers. An appendix lists essential authors published before 1945.
Author : Eugene Benson,L.W. Conolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2597 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134468478
Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Author : Rebecca Fasselt,Corinne Sandwith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000562408
This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has undergone a significant renaissance, with new collections and young writers making a significant impact on the contemporary literary scene, and subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction and queer fiction expanding rapidly in popularity. This book examines the role of the short story genre in reflecting or championing new developments in South African writing and the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. Drawing together a range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews and personal reflective pieces, the volume traces some of the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities in the genre and sheds new light on questions of literary form. Finally, the book considers the place of the short story in twenty-first century writing and interrogates the ways in which the short story form may contribute to, or recast ideas of, the post-apartheid or post-transitional. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.
Author : Chin Ce
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789783703698
Bequeathing an enduring tenet for the creative enterprise, African Short Stories vol 2 boldly seeks to upturn the status quo by the art of narration. Whether they are stories of the whistle blower estranged and yet sounding the warning for heaven and earth to hear, or a ragtag army fleeing in the wake of a monstrous reptilian onslaught upon her peace, there pervades a sense of ultimate victory in this collection. We can feel the gentle kick of a baby in the womb of a maiden in desperation, or we can muse at the two adolescent genii on the trail of their dreams from the sunset of mutual deceit into the daylight of true becoming. Victory is laid out in that awesome kindness of a total stranger which affirms the divinity latent in even our most harrowing existence. With thirty five stories in two parts these literary experiments compel attention to the courageous hearts and minds that brighten the African universe of narration. Their vibrant notes coming from all corners of north, west, east and south fill us with encouragement and optimism for the contemporary short fiction in Africa.
Author : Eva-Marie Herlitzius
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literature and society
ISBN : 3825883493
Author : Mbulelo Mzamane
Publisher : Addison Wesley Longman
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015053239193
