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Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History
Ohio University Press, 2006 eISBN: 978-0-8214-4231-9 | Paper: 978-0-8214-1712-6 | Cloth: 978-0-8214-1711-9 Library of Congress Classification PL8014.S6A88 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 809.8968
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. David 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, reinvent, and recast their positioning within colonialism, apartheid, and the context of democracy. See other books on: African | Black authors | Politics in literature | South African literature (English) | Studies See other titles from Ohio University Press |
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Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
Ohio University Press, 2006
eISBN: 978-0-8214-4231-9
Paper: 978-0-8214-1712-6
Cloth: 978-0-8214-1711-9
eISBN: 978-0-8214-4231-9
Paper: 978-0-8214-1712-6
Cloth: 978-0-8214-1711-9
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.
David 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, reinvent, and recast their positioning within colonialism, apartheid, and the context of democracy.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
