Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995

Book Overview

During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's relation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521597684
• ISBN13: 9780521597685
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"