Rendering Things Visible: Essays on South African Literary CultureMartin Trump Much recent critical practice, sharpened by an engagement with theory, has questioned conventional notions about literature. There has been a tendency to democratize our understanding of literature, so as to include a wide range of cultural practices that might formerly have been excluded from literary-critical concern. In addition, more attention is being paid to the conditions surrounding literary production and teaching. Critical projects of this kind have a particular urgency and relevance in South Africa today. The country is characterized by processes of repression and democratic struggle. Debates about South African literature take place within a context where there are intimate links between political and literary discourses. The essays in this book reveal the complex and arguably inevitable politicization of South African literary culture. |
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... oral traditions alone , then also a practice of fiction - writing that maintains a close relationship with oral traditions . Oral tradition , however , seems to contribute little to the composition of Ndebele's stories . It is true ...
... oral culture and oral narrative . Through the blurring of functions in the con- cept , however , it appears as though both functions are equally pos- sible . The practicability of the one lends credibility to the imprac- ticability of ...
... Oral storytelling tradi- tions give expression to ways in which societies with a predominant- ly oral culture understand this question of the human subject . The argument for ' storytelling ' urges the politically concerned writer to ...
Contents
Building a National Culture in South Africa | 22 |
The Problem of History in the Fiction of J M Coetzee | 94 |
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