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REWRITING MODERNITY
STUDIES IN BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN LITERARY HISTORY |
| By: |
David Attwell |
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Paperback |
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£36.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1869140745 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781869140748 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 2005 |
| Pages: |
248 |
| Description: |
Connects the black literary archive in South Africa, since the nineteenth-century writing of Tiyo Soga. This work focuses on cultural transactions in a series of key moments. It argues that black writers in South Africa have used print culture to map themselves onto modernity as subjects, to recast their positioning in the context of democracy. |
| Synopsis: |
"Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History" connects the black literary archive in South Africa - from the nineteenth-century writing of Tiyo Soga to Zakes Mda in the twenty-first century - to international postcolonial studies via the theory of transculturation, a position adapted from the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz. Attwell provides a welcome complication of the linear black literary history - literature as a reflection of the process of political emancipation - that is so often presented. He focuses on cultural transactions in a series of key moments, and argues that black writers in South Africa have used print culture to map themselves onto modernity as contemporary subjects, to negotiate, counteract, re-invent and recast their positioning within colonialism, apartheid and in the context of democracy. |
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South Africa |
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University of KwaZulu-Natal Press |
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Returnable |
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