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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2011
      22 January 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511586286
      9780521592185
      9780521597685
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511586286
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.535kg, 308 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 308 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Computational Linguistics, African Studies, Language and Linguistics
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    Area Studies, Computational Linguistics, African Studies, Language and Linguistics
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    During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's relation to politics and ethics. Writing South Africa offers a window on the literary activity of this extraordinary period that conveys its range (going well beyond a handful of world-renowned names) and its significance for anyone interested in the impact of decolonisation and democratisation on the cultural sphere. It brings together for the first time discussions by some of the most distinguished South African novelists, poets, and dramatists, with those of leading commentators based in South Africa, Britain and North America.

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