Refractive Realisms: Literature, Culture and the South African Township

by Megan Jones

Book Overview

Refractive Realisms positions the township as a lens to engage the South African canon, endeavouring a reorientation towards a black creative archive and surfacing under-represented forms of literary and cultural expression.

The book converses with the long history of realism in black South African writing to show how the refractive realisms of the contemporary township simultaneously bear witness to precarity and articulate lively...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032942282
• ISBN13: 9781032942285
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 164 Pages