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Apartheid And Beyond: South African Writers And the Politics of Place

Product Description: Apartheid and Beyond offers trenchant, historically sensitive readings of writings by Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form. It also explores the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons...read more

By Rita Barnard

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Hardcover:

9780195112863 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 16, 2006, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Apartheid and Beyond offers trenchant, historically sensitive readings of writings by Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form.

Paperback:

9780199791163 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 2012), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Apartheid and Beyond offers trenchant, historically sensitive readings of writings by Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form.

J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory

Product Description: Nobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.M. Coetzee is perhaps the world's leading living novelist writing in English. Including an international roster of world leading critics and novelists, and drawing on new research, this innovative book analyses the whole range of Coetzee's work, from his most recent novels through his memoirs and critical writing...read more

By Elleke Boehmer (editor), Robert Eaglestone (editor) and Katy Iddiols (editor)

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9780826498830 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 19, 2009, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Nobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.

Paperback:

9781441101112 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 29, 2011, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Nobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.

Alex La Guma: A Literary & Political Biography

By Roger Field

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9781847010179 | James Currey Ltd, February 18, 2010, cover price $90.00

Living on a Horizon: Bessie Head and the Politics of Imagining

Product Description: Bessie Head s writing illustrates a rich fusion of styles, subjects and philosophical and literary influences. Living on a Horizon explores this range by drawing both on postcolonial and feminist theories and on the variety of cultural references that Head acknowledges and that her writing evokes...read more

By Desiree Lewis

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9781592214594 | Gardners Books, July 8, 2007, cover price $33.50 | About this edition: Bessie Head s writing illustrates a rich fusion of styles, subjects and philosophical and literary influences.

Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women?: Stories of the South African Transition

Product Description: Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women? explores the ways in which the imaginative reconstruction of post-apartheid South Africa as a 'rainbow nation' has been produced from images of women that dismember their bodies and disremember their historical presence...read more

By Meg Samuelson

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9781869141202 | Univ of Natal Pr, July 1, 2007, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women?

Living in Hope and History: Notes from Our Century

In an anthology of essays and criticism, the author shares her thoughts on the state of contemporary literature, modern morality, and the political struggle of the Third World

By Nadine Gordimer

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9780374189914 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In an anthology of essays and criticism, the author shares her thoughts on the state of contemporary literature, modern morality, and the political struggle of the Third World

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9780374527525 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 2000, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: In an anthology of essays and criticism, the author shares her thoughts on the state of contemporary literature, modern morality, and the political struggle of the Third World

9780747548232 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, August 1, 2000, cover price $22.01

Miscellaneous:

9780374707446 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 15, 2007), cover price $9.99

Art Talk, Politics Talk

Product Description: Art Talk, Politics Talk looks at a deep issue, whether art should be in the service of political ends or be free to roam on its own and burgeon to the beat of the artist's perspective. Should art inform politics, or should it be the reverse? From the introductory thought-how to talk about art in a politically demanding milieu-to meditations on writers ranging from J...read more

By Michael Chapman

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9781869140694 | Univ of Natal Pr, December 30, 2006, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Art Talk, Politics Talk looks at a deep issue, whether art should be in the service of political ends or be free to roam on its own and burgeon to the beat of the artist's perspective.

J. M. Coetzee And the Idea of the Public Intellectual

Product Description: In September 2003 the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, confirming his reputation as one of the most influential writers of our time. J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual addresses the contribution Coetzee has made to contemporary literature, not least for the contentious forays his work makes into South African political discourse and the field of postcolonial studies...read more

By Jane Poyner (editor)

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9780821416860 | Ohio Univ Pr, August 1, 2006, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: In September 2003 the South African novelist J.

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9780821416877 | Ohio Univ Pr, August 1, 2006, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In September 2003 the South African novelist J.

Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Culture and Its Aftermath

Product Description: Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Culture and its Aftermath traces the responses to the emergent paradigm of South African literary studies from the 1970s onwards. Embedded in the influential critical texts of the field, it claims, are hidden narratives - of land, race, gender, desire and embodiment...read more

By Louise Bethlehem

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9781868884087 | Brill Academic Pub, June 30, 2006, cover price $51.00 | About this edition: Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Culture and its Aftermath traces the responses to the emergent paradigm of South African literary studies from the 1970s onwards.

Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa

By Grant Farred

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Hardcover:

9780813335148, titled "Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa" | Westview Pr, December 9, 1999, cover price $75.00

Paperback:

9780813339207, titled "Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa" | Westview Pr, July 1, 2004, cover price $25.00

The Creative Vision of Bessie Head

This book explores how Head's writing is her idiosyncratic response to her personal life. Her desire to portray and yet subvert oppression that she encountered in South Africa and Botswana led to a romanticism born of her need to create an antithesis to what she perceived to be the reality around her. (view table of contents)

By Coreen Brown

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9780838639825 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $47.50

9781611472578 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This book explores how Head's writing is her idiosyncratic response to her personal life.

Alex LA Guma: Politics and Resistance

Product Description: Nahem Yousaf explores the novels of Alex La Guma to reveal their contrasts, their multifaceted dialogues with apartheid, and what they inform us about the oppressive nature of the apartheid system that strove to deny non-whites their humanity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Nahem Yousaf

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9780325001890 | Heinemann, March 26, 2001, cover price $106.50 | About this edition: Nahem Yousaf explores the novels of Alex La Guma to reveal their contrasts, their multifaceted dialogues with apartheid, and what they inform us about the oppressive nature of the apartheid system that strove to deny non-whites their humanity.

Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa

Product Description: At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Western-style parliamentary democracy, South Africans felt called upon to normalize their conceptions of economics, politics, and culture in line with these Western models...read more

By Anthony O'Brien

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9780822325529 | Duke Univ Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Western-style parliamentary democracy, South Africans felt called upon to normalize their conceptions of economics, politics, and culture in line with these Western models.

Paperback:

9780822325710 | Duke Univ Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Western-style parliamentary democracy, South Africans felt called upon to normalize their conceptions of economics, politics, and culture in line with these Western models.

Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995

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By Derek Attridge (editor) and Rosemary Jane Jolly (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780521592185 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $99.99

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9780521597685, titled "Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy 1970-1995" | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $44.99

A Morbid Fascination: White Prose and Politics in Apartheid South Africa

Product Description: Using a broad range of literature to examine the political culture of white South Africa, Peck finds both a preoccupation with political issues and a dislike for politics. The literature examined ranges from South African propaganda, through a variety of bestsellersâadventure stories and mystery novels written by authors such as Wilbur Smith and James McClureâto self-conscious literary works of the canonical white South African authors such as Alan Paton, AndrÃ© Brink, and Nadine Gordimer...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Richard Peck

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9780313300912 | Praeger Pub Text, February 28, 1997, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Using a broad range of literature to examine the political culture of white South Africa, Peck finds both a preoccupation with political issues and a dislike for politics.

The Writing of Ezekiel (Es'Kia) Mphahlele, South African Writer: Literature, Culture, and Politics

By Tyohdzuah Akosu

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9780773422858 | Edwin Mellen Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $119.95

Nadine Gordimer

Product Description: In this study, which may be used as an introduction as well as by those already familiar with Gordimer's work, Dominic Head discusses each of Nadine Gordimer's novels in detail, examining the texts both as a reflection of events and situations in the real world, and as evidence of her constant rethinking of her craft...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Dominic Head

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9780521433617 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: In this study, which may be used as an introduction as well as by those already familiar with Gordimer's work, Dominic Head discusses each of Nadine Gordimer's novels in detail, examining the texts both as a reflection of events and situations in the real world, and as evidence of her constant rethinking of her craft.

Paperback:

9780521475495 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: In this study, which may be used as an introduction as well as by those already familiar with Gordimer's work, Dominic Head discusses each of Nadine Gordimer's novels in detail, examining the texts both as a reflection of events and situations in the real world, and as evidence of her constant rethinking of her craft.

J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing

Product Description: David Attwell defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist J.M. Coetzee by arguing that Coetzee has absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing the ethical tensions of the South African crisis...read more

By David Attwell

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9780520078109 | Univ of California Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: David Attwell defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist J.

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9780520078123 | Univ of California Pr on Demand, May 1, 1993, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: David Attwell defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist J.

Betrayals of the Body Politic: The Literary Commitments of Nadine Gordimer

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By Andrew Vogel Ettin

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9780813914305 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $35.00

Exchanges: South African Writing in Transition

By Duncan Brown (editor) and Bruno Van Dyk (editor)

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9780869807897 | Univ of Natal Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $11.95

The Novels of Alex LA Guma: The Representation of a Political Conflict

Product Description: This text explores Alex La Guma's five novels. Though concerned with the interaction of politics with aesthetics, it does not allow the political thrust of the work to dominate the symbolic structures and literary aspects of La Guma's fiction.

By Kathleen M. Balutansky

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9780894105579 | Three Continents Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This text explores Alex La Guma's five novels.

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9780894105586 | Three Continents Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: This text explores Alex La Guma's five novels.

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