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On Literary Attachment in South Africa: Tough Love (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

Michael Chapman

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Description:This book reflects on the 'literary' in literature. Less ideologically construed, more affirmative of literary attachment, the study adopts a style of intimacy - its 'tough love' - in a correlation between the creative work and the critical act. Instead of configuring literary works to 'state of the nation' issues - the usual approach to literature from South Africa - the chapters keep alive a space for conversation, whether accented inwards to locality or outwards to the Anglophone world: the world to which literature in South Africa continues to belong, albeit as a 'problem child'.A postcolony that is not quite a postcolony, South Africa is richly but frustratingly textured between Africa and the West, or the South and the North. Its literature - hovering on the cusp of its locality and its global reach - raises peculiar questions of reader reception, epistemological and aesthetic frame, and archival use. Are the Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee local writers or global writers? Is the novel or the short story the more appropriate form at the edges of metropolitan cultures? Given language, race, and culture contestation, how do we recover Bushman expression for contemporary use? How to consider the aesthetic appeal of two contemporaneous works, one in English the other in isiXhosa, the one indebted to Bloomsbury modernism the other to African custom? How does Douglas Livingstone attach the Third World to the First World in both science and poetry? What has a 'born free' novelist, Kopano Matlwa, got to do with the Bard of Avon? In a time of theorisation, is it permissible for Lewis Nkosi to embody literary criticism in an autobiographical journey? How to read the rupturing event - the statue of Rhodes must fall - through a literary sensibility?Alert to the influence of critique, the study is equally alert to the 'limits of critique'. Reflecting on several writers, works, and events that do not feature in current publications, On Literary Attachment in South Africa releases literature to speak to us today, within the contours of its originating energy.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with On Literary Attachment in South Africa: Tough Love (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures). To get started finding On Literary Attachment in South Africa: Tough Love (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book reflects on the 'literary' in literature. Less ideologically construed, more affirmative of literary attachment, the study adopts a style of intimacy - its 'tough love' - in a correlation between the creative work and the critical act. Instead of configuring literary works to 'state of the nation' issues - the usual approach to literature from South Africa - the chapters keep alive a space for conversation, whether accented inwards to locality or outwards to the Anglophone world: the world to which literature in South Africa continues to belong, albeit as a 'problem child'.A postcolony that is not quite a postcolony, South Africa is richly but frustratingly textured between Africa and the West, or the South and the North. Its literature - hovering on the cusp of its locality and its global reach - raises peculiar questions of reader reception, epistemological and aesthetic frame, and archival use. Are the Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee local writers or global writers? Is the novel or the short story the more appropriate form at the edges of metropolitan cultures? Given language, race, and culture contestation, how do we recover Bushman expression for contemporary use? How to consider the aesthetic appeal of two contemporaneous works, one in English the other in isiXhosa, the one indebted to Bloomsbury modernism the other to African custom? How does Douglas Livingstone attach the Third World to the First World in both science and poetry? What has a 'born free' novelist, Kopano Matlwa, got to do with the Bard of Avon? In a time of theorisation, is it permissible for Lewis Nkosi to embody literary criticism in an autobiographical journey? How to read the rupturing event - the statue of Rhodes must fall - through a literary sensibility?Alert to the influence of critique, the study is equally alert to the 'limits of critique'. Reflecting on several writers, works, and events that do not feature in current publications, On Literary Attachment in South Africa releases literature to speak to us today, within the contours of its originating energy.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with On Literary Attachment in South Africa: Tough Love (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures). To get started finding On Literary Attachment in South Africa: Tough Love (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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