World of letters : reading communities and cultural debates in early apartheid South Africa / Corinne Sandwith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sandwith, Corinne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taylor, Dora, 1899-1976.

Taylor, Dora.

Non-European Unity Movement (South Africa).

Journalism--Political aspects--South Africa.

Journalism.

Intellectuals--South Africa--Biography.

Intellectuals.

Books and reading--Political aspects--South Africa.

Books and reading.

Government, Resistance to--South Africa.

Government, Resistance to.

Intellectual life.

Marxist criticism.

Books and reading--Political aspects.

Journalism--Political aspects.

South Africa.

Marxist criticism--South Africa.

South Africa--Intellectual life.

Apartheid--South Africa.

Apartheid.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 309 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014.

Summary:

"World of Letters retrieves an important but largely forgotten history of readers, reading practices and cultural debates in early apartheid South Africa. Corinne Sandwith pursues this history in the ephemeral spaces of oppositional newspapers, literary magazines, debating societies and theatre groups. What emerges from the diverse fragments is a rich tradition of public debate in South Africa on literature and culture. What also surfaces are a host of readers and critics - such as A.C. Jordan, Dora Taylor, Jack Cope and Ben Kies - whose lively cultural interventions form a significant part of South Africa' s literary-cultural and socio-political heritage. Offering a combination of historical narrative, critical analysis and biography, this elegantly written book recovers these neglected reading and debating communities in order to bring them into the present and to reclaim their constitutive role in both the literary archive and the public sphere." -- Back page.

Contents:

Introduction: A faithless literature of frustration and protest

Politics aside: The South African Opinion

The moment of Trek

Dora Taylor - marxist literary critic

Civility in question: cultural debates in the Non-European Unity Movement

Yours for socialism: communist cultural criticism, radical theatre and Jack Cope

'From urban gentlemen with clean hands to a militant people's movement' : literary-cultural debates post-1948.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781869142629

1869142624

OCLC:

887800610