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Voices of justice and reason : apartheid and beyond in South African literature / Geoffrey V. Davis.
Van Pelt Library PR9359.6 .D38 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Geoffrey V., 1943-2018.
- Series:
- Cross/cultures ; 61.
- Cross/cultures ; 61
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South African literature (English)--20th century--History and criticism.
- South African literature (English).
- Apartheid in literature.
- Literature and society--South Africa--20th century--History.
- Literature and society.
- History.
- South Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 376 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2003.
- Contents:
- The English language 8
- Postcolonial literary history 10
- Multiculturalism 12
- A comparative approach 13
- "A sociological imagination" 15
- 1 "Look elsewhere for your bedtime story": William Plomer and the Politics of Love 35
- Race classification 35
- "Immorality" 38
- William Plomer 45
- Turbott Wolfe 47
- 2 "Life on the black side of the fence": Forced Removals and the Migrant Labour System in Mtutuzeli Matshoba's Seeds of War 57
- Forced removals 57
- Migrant labour 59
- The literary response 61
- Matshoba's Seeds of War 64
- The historical background 77
- Matshoba's version 81
- 3 "An island in a sea of apartheid": Richard Rive's District Six 87
- The Coloureds 87
- How was this done? 89
- District Six 91
- Richard Rive 95
- Buckingham Palace District Six 101
- 4 "Literature in an imperfect world": Censorship in South Africa 109
- The censor's passage 109
- The legislation 112
- The censorship of literature 115
- A new phase? 122
- Media restrictions 127
- 5 Of "Undesirability": The Control of Theatre in South Africa During the Age of Apartheid 137
- An encounter with the authorities 137
- The imposition of censorship 139
- The appeal system 141
- Other legislation 143
- Political intervention 148
- Police surveillance 148
- Statistics 150
- The effects on performances of plays from overseas 151
- A theatre of the absurd 153
- Satire 156
- Political sensitivities 157
- 6 "Born out of flames": Matsemela Manaka's Theatre for Social Reconstruction 163
- Early career 163
- Staffrider 166
- Egoli 169
- Children of Asazi 171
- Siza 172
- Koma 173
- Toro 174
- Goree 174
- Blues Afrika Cafe 175
- Black Consciousness 177
- Educating the dispossessed 179
- 7 "Repainting the damaged canvas": The Theatre of Matsemela Manaka 185
- The language of the plays 188
- Visual images 190
- Mime 192
- Music 195
- Dance 198
- 8 "The people are claiming their history": Reconstructions of History in Black South African Writing 205
- View of history 205
- Debates and re-evaluations 210
- Matshoba's reconstruction of history in "Three Days in the Land of a Dying Illusion" 213
- An exercise in political conscientization 219
- 9 From Soweto to Goree: A South African Writer in Search of the African Heritage 223
- Crossing borders 223
- Sepamla in Senegal 225
- Manaka's visits to West Africa 226
- Goree: the play 228
- The spiritual journey 232
- 10 "When it's all over, and we all return": Matsemela Manaka's Play Ekhaya
- Going Home 237
- Exile 237
- The return of the exiles 239
- Ekhaya: the play 241
- 11 Theatre for a Post-Apartheid Society 257
- Transition 257
- The challenge to theatre 259
- Change in the theatre 260
- Theatre under apartheid 261
- Theatre and social transition 265
- New priorities 268
- The Performing Arts Councils 270
- Principles of post-apartheid theatre 273
- 12 Conclusion: "What are South Africans now going to write about?" 279
- Reinventions 279
- Conferences and festivals 283
- Njabulo Ndebele 287
- Albie Sachs 293
- Language 297
- The concerns of black writers 302
- Drama 303
- Coming to terms with the legacy of the past: Ivan Vladislavic's short story "The WHITES ONLY Bench" 308
- The border 313
- Greig Coetzee's White Men with Weapons 318
- Truth and Reconciliation 320
- Doing justice to the TRC 327
- Paul Herzberg's The Dead Wait 329
- Ubu and the Truth Commission 333
- Appendix The Intoxicated Octopus and the Garlic-Kissed Prawn: On South African Bibliography 347
- The liberation struggle 347
- The process of transition 349
- Transition and literature 350
- The challenge for the bibliographer 353.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (Universit Gesamthochschule).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-376).
- ISBN:
- 9042008369
- OCLC:
- 52746797
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