Author: NA NAPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349815705
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Voices in the Whirlwind and other Essays
Author: NA NAPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349815705
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Voices in the whirlwind and other essays
Author: Ezekiel MphahleleVoices in the Whirlwind, and Other Essays
Author: Es'kia MphahlelePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Rewriting Modernity
Author: David AttwellPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821417118
Category : Apartheid in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History connects the black literary archive in South Africa to international postcolonial studies via the theory of transculturation, a position adapted from the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz.
J.M. Coetzee and the Novel
Author: Patrick HayesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199587957
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book argues that the significance of Coetzee's complex and finely-nuanced fiction lies in the acuity with which it both explores and develops the tradition of the novel - ranging from Cervantes, Defoe, and Richardson, to Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Beckett - as part of a sustained attempt to rethink the relationship between writing and politics.
Artefacts of Writing
Author: Peter D. McDonaldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192538373
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics. In Artefacts of Writing, Peter D. McDonald argues they pose as much of a challenge to the way states conceptualise language, culture, and community. Drawing on a wealth of evidence, from Victorian scholarly disputes over the identity of the English language to the constitutional debates about its future in Ireland, India, and South Africa, and from the quarrels over the idea of culture within the League of Nations in the interwar years to UNESCO's ongoing struggle to articulate a viable concept of diversity, McDonald brings together a large ensemble of legacy writers, including T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Rabindranath Tagore, putting them in dialogue with each other and with the policy-makers who shaped the formation of modern states and the history of internationalist thought from the 1860s to the 1940s. In the second part of the book, he reflects on the continuing evolution of these dialogues, showing how a varied array of more contemporary writers from Amit Chaudhuri, J. M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie to Antjie Krog, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, and Es'kia Mphahlele cast new light on a range of questions concerning education, literacy, human rights, translation, indigenous knowledge, and cultural diversity that have preoccupied UNESCO since 1945. At once a novel contribution to institutional and intellectual history and an innovative exercise in literary and philosophical analysis, Artefacts of Writing affords a unique perspective on literature's place at the centre of some of the most fraught, often lethal public controversies that defined the long-twentieth century and that continue to haunt us today
Job in the Medieval World
Author: Stephen J. VicchioPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1597525332
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In this second of a three-volume work, Vicchio addresses the Job traditions as interpreted in the period of the Middle Ages--in Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources. From the Vulgate to the Qur'an, from Maimonides to Calvin, Vicchio addresses the complexities of the Òreception history of intriguing work. Two appendices address how Job has been treated throughout history in literature, in drama, and in medicine. Volume 1: Job in the Ancient World Volume 2: Job in the Medieval World Volume 3: Job in the Modern World
In Corner B
Author: Es'kia MphahlelePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101486201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The quintessential story collection from "the most important black South African writer of the present age" (George Moore). Originally published in 1967, In Corner B contains the core stories of the original editions, together with more recent pieces, and is the first new edition of Mphahlele's work since his death in 2008. Written after his return from exile, these stories inimitably capture life in both rural and urban South Africa during the days of apartheid. A new introduction by Peter Thuynsma, a South African scholar and former Mphahlele student, presents the "dean of African letters" to a new generation of readers.
Cultural Events in Africa
Author: Black World/Negro Digest
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing. During the most turbulent years of the civil rights movement, Negro Digest/Black World served as a critical vehicle for political thought for supporters of the movement.