Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa

by Graham James and James Graham

Book Overview

In this volume, Graham investigates the relation between land and nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s to the present. This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses a wide range of writing against a backdrop of regional decolonization, including novels by the prize-winning authors J.M Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Chenjerai Hove, and Yvonne Vera. By employing a range of critical perspectives-cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138843504
• ISBN13: 9781138843509
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"