{"product_id":"south-african-london-writing-the-metropolis-after-1948-9781526148551","title":"South African London: Writing the Metropolis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003epresents a long-ranging and in-depth study of South African writing set in London during the apartheid years and beyond. Since London served as an important site of South African exile and emigration, particularly during the second half of the twentieth-century, the city shaped the history of South African letters in meaningful and material ways. Being in London allowed South African writers to engage with their own expectations of Englishness, and to rethink their South African identities. The book presents a range of diverse and fascinating responses by South African writers that provide nuanced perspectives on exile, global racisms and modernity. Writers studied include Peter Abrahams, Dan Jacobson, Noni Jabavu, Todd Matshikiza, Arthur Nortje, Lauretta Ngcobo, J.M.Coetzee, Justin Cartwright, and Ishtiyaq Shukri. \u003ci\u003eSouth African London\u003c\/i\u003e offers an original and multi-faceted take on both London writing and South African twentieth-century literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In this rich and engaging new study, Andrea Thorpe offers us the perspectives of those for whom London was variously a lens to view the world [...] The book is sharply cognisant of the production of 'South African' writing and writers in London and how this was racially structured [...] there is much in Thorpe's work for scholars of South African history and writing, London and urban histories, exile, modernity, and transnational movements.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnne Macguire, The London Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eThorpe's re-evaluation of South African writing as London writing holds political as well as scholarly importance.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHayley G. Toth, Journal of Postcolonial Writing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003ci\u003eSouth African London\u003c\/i\u003e is a well-conceived and engaging book, providing informed and insightful readings that nuance the contrapuntal paradigm of exilic writing. It makes a valuable contribution to South African literary history, as well as to the literature of London and to Diaspora Studies.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Blair, Modern Language Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Through the “eyes” of London \u003cbr\u003e1 Peter Abrahams and Dan Jacobson: South African liberal humanists in postwar London\u003cbr\u003eDetour:“I have always been a Londoner”: Noni Jabavu, an unconventional South African in London  \u003cbr\u003e2 Swinging City: Todd Matshikiza’s contrapuntal London writing \u003cbr\u003e3 Waiting and Watching in the city’s pleasure streets: Arthur Nortje’s poems set in London \u003cbr\u003eDetour: South African writers and London networks of black British activism \u003cbr\u003e4 Securing the past: Self-reflexive, retrospective narratives of London in J.M. Coetzee’s \u003ci\u003eYouth \u003c\/i\u003eand Justin Cartwright’s \u003ci\u003eIn Every Face I Meet \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Between the cracks of the city: Transnational Solidarities in Ishtiyaq Shukri’s \u003ci\u003eThe Silent Minaret \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020018450775,"sku":"9781526148551","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/south-african-london-writing-the-metropolis-after-1948-9781526148551","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}