South African literature and culture : rediscovery of the ordinary
Described as "a prophet of the post-apartheid condition", Njabulo Ndebele is a prize-winning author, poet and critic. These essays, beginning in 1984, were written over the "storm years" of South Africa's democratic struggle and are reprinted here with an introduction by Graham Pechey.
Print Book, English, ©1994
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, Manchester, New York, ©1994
Aufsatzsammlung
ix, 161 pages ; 22 cm
9780719040528, 9780719040511, 0719040523, 0719040515
29638356
Introduction / Graham Pechey
1. Turkish Tales and Some Thought on South African Fiction
2. The Rediscovery of the Ordinary: Some New Writings in South Africa
3. Redefining Relevance
4. Actors and Interpreters : Popular Culture and Progressive Formalism
5. The English Language and Social Change in South Africa
6. Towards Progressive Cultural Planning
7. Against Pamphleteering the Future
8. The Writers' Movement in South Africa
9. Guilt and Atonement: Unmasking History for the Future
Appendix: Noma Award Acceptance Speech