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Writing home : Lewis Nkosi on South African writing / edited by Lindy Stiebel and Michael Chapman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nkosi, Lewis, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South African literature (English).
- South African literature (English)--Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "The selection of ... [Nkosi's] work in this volume focuses on his critical writing on South African literature: in Part One, on the literature of his home country, generally; in Part Two, on specific writers; and, finally, on Lewis Nkosi himself. The selections are from his major out-of-print critical collections, Home and Exile (1965, enlarged edition 1983), The Transplanted Heart (1975) and Tasks and Masks (1981), as well as from magazine and journal articles."--Pages 1-2.
- Contents:
- Part one. Home to exile. The fabulous decade: the fifties
- Fiction by black South Africans
- Southern Africa: protest and commitment
- Postmodernism and black writing in South Africa
- The republic of letters after the Mandela republic
- The ideology of reconciliation: its effects on South African culture
- Part two. Exile to home. Ezekiel (Es'kia) Mphahlele's The African image
- The death of Nat Nakasa
- Doing Paris with Breyten
- Athol Fugard: his work and us
- Alex La Guma: the man and his work
- The late Can Themba: an appreciation
- Herman Charles Bosman: in search of the 'true' Afrikaners!
- Nadine Gordimer's July's people (Review)
- Alan Paton's 'Ah, but your land is beautiful' (Review)
- South African fiction: writers at the barricades
- White writing: Gordimer's The essential gesture: writing, politics and places; Coetzee's White writing: on the culture of letters in South Africa
- Bloke Modisane: Blame me on history
- Nadine Gordimer at seventy-five
- How I write.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781869143367
- 1869143361
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