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Author Cornwell, Gareth.

Title The Columbia guide to South African literature in English since 1945 / Gareth Cornwell, Dirk Klopper, and Craig MacKenzie.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 251 pages).
text file
Series The Columbia guides to literature since 1945
Columbia guides to literature since 1945.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents South African literature in English since 1945: long walk to ordinariness -- Authors A-Z -- Writers before 1945.
Summary From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid. Because apartheid intruded on every aspect of private and public life, South African literature was preoccupied with the politics of race and social engineering. Since the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990, South Africa has been a new nation-in-the-making, inspired by a nonracial idealism yet beset by poverty and violence. South African writers have responded in v.
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Subject South African literature (English) -- Dictionaries.
South African literature (English)
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
Subject Authors, South African -- 20th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
Authors, South African.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Biographies.
Added Author Klopper, Dirk.
MacKenzie, Craig, 1960-
Other Form: Print version: 9780231130462 0231130465 (DLC) 2009018408
Print version: Cornwell, Gareth. Columbia guide to South African literature in English since 1945. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010 9780231130462 (DLC) 2009018408 (OCoLC)323191865
ISBN 0231503814 (electronic book)
9780231503815 (electronic book)
9780231130462 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0231130465 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
Music No. EB00662231 Recorded Books