A History of South African Literature Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

A History of South African Literature Book

This book is the first critical study of its subject, from colonial and pre-colonial times to the present. Christopher Heywood discusses selected poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. The discussion includes over 100 authors and selected works, covering poetry, theatre and prose. The literature is explored in the setting of crises leading to the formation of modern South Africa. In Christopher Heywood's magisterial study, South African literature emerges as among the great literatures of the modern world.Read More

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    Christopher Heywood surveys representative South African poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. Heywood's selections include over 100 authors and selected works--covering poetry, theater and prose. Explored in the context of crises leading to the formation of modern South Africa, South African literature emerges from this study as one of the great literatures of the modern world.

  • 0521554853
  • 9780521554855
  • Christopher Heywood
  • 18 November 2004
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 310
  • 1st Edition
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