South African Literature and Culture: Rediscovery of the Ordinary

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Manchester University Press, 1994 - History - 161 pages
Described as a prophet of the post-apartheid condition, Njabulo Ndebele is a prize-winning author, poet and critic and one of the leading lights in South Africa's literary world. These essays, beginning in 1984, were written over the storm years of the democratic struggle and are reprinted here with a new introduction by Graham Pechey.
 

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INTRODUCTION BY GRAHAM PECHEY1
1
TURKISH TALES AND SOME THOUGHTS
17
POPULAR CULTURE
75
SOCIAL CHANGE IN SOUTH AFRICA98
98
TOWARDS PROGRESSIVE CULTURAL PLANNING117
117
AGAINST PAMPHLETEERING THE FUTURE129
129
THE WRITERS MOVEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA140
140
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