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Author:
Lindfors, Bernth.
Title:
Early Black South African writing in English / by Bernth Lindfors.
Publisher:
Africa World Press,
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
x, 256 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subject:
South African literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
South African literature (English)--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Authors, African--20th century--Interviews.
Blacks--South Africa--Intellectual life.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The ambiguity of evil in Thomas Mofolo's Chaka -- Exile and aesthetic distance: geographical influences on Peter Abrahams -- The short happy life of the South African short story, 1951-1963 -- The emergence of popular protest poetry and drama -- Love in oppressive times: South Africa's first Indian novel -- Strategies of protest in Alex la Guma's A walk in the night -- Dialectical development in the poetry of Dennis Brutus -- Dennis Brutus and his critics -- The rise and fall of Mbongeni Ngema -- Interviews: Dennis Brutus, Ezekiel [Es'kia] Mphahlele, Richard Rive, Njabulo Ndebele.
ISBN:
9781592218400 (hardcover)
1592218407 (hardcover)
1592218415 (pbk.)
9781592218417 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)719863581
LCCN:
2011027387
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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