A Brief History of South Africa
Title | A Brief History of South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | JOHN. BAILEY PAMPALLIS (MARYKE.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2021-11-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781928232957 |
A Story of South Africa
Title | A Story of South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Susan V. Gallagher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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With the publication of Age of Iron--winner of Britain's richest fiction prize, the Sunday Express Book of the Year for 1990--J. M. Coetzee is now recognized as one of the foremost writers of our day. In this timely study of Coetzee's fiction, Susan Gallagher places his work in the context of South African history and politics. Her close historical readings of Coetzee's six major novels explore how he lays bare the "dense complicity between thought and language" in South Africa. Following a penetrating description of the unique difficulties facing writers under apartheid, Gallagher recounts how history, language, and authority have been used to marginalize the majority of South Africa's people. Her story reaches from the beginnings of Afrikaner nationalism to the recent past: the Sharpeville massacre, the jailing of Nelson Mandela, and the Soweto uprising. As a result of his rejection of liberal and socialist realism, Coetzee has been branded an escapist, but Gallagher ably defends him from this charge. Her cogent, convincingly argued examination of his novels demonstrates that Coetzee's fictional response is "apocalyptic in the most profound Biblical sense, obscurely pointing toward ineffable realities transcending discursive definition." Viewing Coetzee's fiction in this context, Gallagher describes a new kind of novel "that arises out of history, but also rivals history." This analysis reveals Coetzee's novels to be profound responses to their time and place as well as richly rewarding investigations of the storyteller's art.
The Short Story in South Africa
Title | The Short Story in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Fasselt |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2022-03-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000562409 |
This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has undergone a significant renaissance, with new collections and young writers making a significant impact on the contemporary literary scene, and subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction and queer fiction expanding rapidly in popularity. This book examines the role of the short story genre in reflecting or championing new developments in South African writing and the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. Drawing together a range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews and personal reflective pieces, the volume traces some of the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities in the genre and sheds new light on questions of literary form. Finally, the book considers the place of the short story in twenty-first century writing and interrogates the ways in which the short story form may contribute to, or recast ideas of, the post-apartheid or post-transitional. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.
A Short History of South Africa
Title | A Short History of South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Nattrass |
Publisher | Biteback Publishing |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2017-11-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1785903683 |
South Africa is popularly perceived as the most influential nation in Africa – a gateway to an entire continent for finance, trade and politics, and a crucial mediator in its neighbours' affairs. On the other hand, post-Apartheid dreams of progress and reform have, in part, collapsed into a morass of corruption, unemployment and criminal violence. A Short History of South Africa is a brief, general account of the history of this most complicated and fascinating country – from the first evidence of hominid existence to the wars of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries that led to the establishment of modern South Africa, the horrors of Apartheid and the optimism following its collapse, as well as the prospects and challenges for the future. This readable and thorough account, illustrated with maps and photographs, is the culmination of a lifetime of researching and teaching the broad spectrum of South African history. Nattrass's passion for her subject shines through, whether she is elucidating the reader on early humans in the cradle of humankind, or describing the tumultuous twentieth-century processes that shaped the democracy that is South Africa today.
An Economic History of South Africa
Title | An Economic History of South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | C. H. Feinstein |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2005-06-23 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521850919 |
This book examines five hundred years of South African economic history.
Reader's Digest Illustrated History of South Africa
Title | Reader's Digest Illustrated History of South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Dougie Oakes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 530 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
A record of all races and history of South Africa, featuring notable personalities and pivotal events.
A History of South Africa
Title | A History of South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Monteath Thompson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300065428 |
Reexamines the history of South Africa, traces the development of apartheid, and describes the anti-apartheid movement