Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture

by Stefan Helgesson

Book Overview

Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique.

Stefan Helgesson suggests that the prevalence of 'colonial' languages such as English and Portuguese in 'anticolonial' or 'postcolonial' African Literature is primarily an effect of the print network. Helgesson aims to demystify the authority...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415808790
• ISBN13: 9780415808798
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"