{"product_id":"at-the-margin-of-one-many-languages-essays-on-south-african-literature-9783034318648","title":"At the Margin of One\/Many Languages: Essays on","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays collected here are responses to books of poetry and prose published during the transition period from the apartheid regime of the mid-1980s to the first democratic election in South Africa in 1994. The volume comprises a variety of texts written during the crucial mid-1980s – the time of the «Emergency» and the height of oppression – up to and including the installation of the first freely elected South African government in 1994. \u003cbr\u003e In the years of anti-apartheid struggle, the immediate political conflict was pre-eminent in the minds of many poets but extended to broader concerns about race, writing and colonialism, such as the debate about the \u003ci\u003eimbongi \u003c\/i\u003e(African praise singer) as the true antecedent of the contemporary African poet. After the end of apartheid new challenges came to the South African book publishing industry and, thus, to South African writers, as they tried to make sense of the past and draw tentative lines into the future. The works of J. M. Coetzee, Njabulo Ndebele, Kelwyn Sole, Sandile Dikeni, Vincent Swart, Heather Robertson, Patrick Cullinan, Seitlhamo Motsapi, W. P. B. Botha and more are read against this changing social and political landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: The imperative to imagine the unimaginable: J.M. Coetzee’s \u003ci\u003eDoubling the Point \u003c\/i\u003e– «Nothing less than the writing of our own texts»: Njabulo Ndebele’s \u003ci\u003eRediscovery of the Ordinary \u003c\/i\u003e– Challenging the metropolis as the marketplace for Third World literature – The voice of the poet: «The blues is you in me». The class and culture specificity of emotion – «Where we stride above the fading, insistent mutter of the dead»: Kelwyn Sole’s \u003ci\u003eProjections in the Past Tense \u003c\/i\u003e– «That invention of the working class»: Sandile Dikeni’s \u003ci\u003eGuava Juice\u003c\/i\u003e – «Standing armed on our own ground»: Barry Feinberg’s \u003ci\u003eGardens of Struggle \u003c\/i\u003e– Vincent Swart or the malaise of South African poetry – Poetry to sing at Rosies and All that Jazz: Heather Robertson, \u003ci\u003eUnder the Sun \u003c\/i\u003e– The poet has nothing but his voice: On the poetry of Tatamkhulu Afrika – The spaces \u003ci\u003ebetween\u003c\/i\u003e: Tatamkhulu Afrika, \u003ci\u003eMaqabane \u003c\/i\u003e(Mayibuye 1994) – At a certain distance from hell: Patrick Cullinan, \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems 1961-1994\u003c\/i\u003e – «The purple pink salt of songs without heads»: Seitlhamo Motsapi’s \u003ci\u003eearthstepper\/the ocean is very shallow \u003c\/i\u003e– Dostoevsky in Cape Town: J.M. Coetzee’s \u003ci\u003eThe Master of Petersburg \u003c\/i\u003e– I am dead: you cannot read. André Brink’s \u003ci\u003eOn the Contrary \u003c\/i\u003e– The difficulties of memory: Christopher Hope’s \u003ci\u003eSerenity House \u003c\/i\u003e– The mysterious patterns of everyday life in a colony: Christopher Hope’s \u003ci\u003eThe Love Songs of Nathan J. Swirsky \u003c\/i\u003e– A house\/a story hanging by a thread: Ivan Vladislavic’s \u003ci\u003eThe Folly \u003c\/i\u003e– The genealogy of shame: Etienne van Heerden’s \u003ci\u003eAncestral Voices \u003c\/i\u003e– The myth of the wave: Mike Nicol’s \u003ci\u003eThis Day and Age \u003c\/i\u003e– Trying to make sense of the past: W.P.B. Botha’s \u003ci\u003eThe Reluctant Playwright\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043644342615,"sku":"9783034318648","price":41.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783034318648.jpg?v=1750958999","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/at-the-margin-of-one-many-languages-essays-on-south-african-literature-9783034318648","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}