Emerging traditions towards a postcolonial stylistics of black South African fiction in English / Vicki Briault Manus.
| Author/creator | Briault Manus, Vicki, 1952- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, |
| Description | 1 online resource (xl, 308 p.) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | A period of optimism (1795-1910) : literacy as the path to equality. Case-study one : translation and transposition : The wrath of the ancestors and Tales from Southern Africa by A.C. Jordan -- Disillusionment sets in (1910-1948) : black Englishmen and urban natives : first signs of indigenization. Case-study two : a detailed stylistic analysis of Sol Plaatje's Mhudi -- Under control (1948-1960) : tsotsis, tough-talking journalists from the urban ghetto and the post-creole continuum. Case-study three : Can Themba, the poet-laureate of the township -- Stylistic analysis of two stories from Drum magazine : The urchin (1951) and Baby come duze (1973) -- Dislocation (1960-1976) : colored or creole? : writing "between two fires" in the sixties. Case-study four : The park and other stories by James Matthews -- Deadlock (1976-1990) : the old is dying and the new cannot be born. Case-study five : stylistic analysis of Oggzee by Don Mattera -- Breakthrough (1990 and after) : multiple identities and "emerging traditions." Case-study six : Welcome to our Hillbrow by Phaswane Mpe. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Emerging traditions Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011. 9780739148075 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020740001 |
| ISBN | 9780739166956 ebook |
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