Chapman, Michael

Southern African literatures / Michael Chapman. - London ; New York : Longman, 1996. - xxvii, 533 p. ; 23 cm. - Longman literatures in English series . - Longman literature in English series. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [472]-515) and index.

Map of South Africa -- Countries of South Africa -- A Note on Racial Terminology, Orthography and Conventions -- Introduction Writing Literary History in Southern Africa -- Oral Tradition: A Usable Past. Bushman (San) Songs and Stories. African (Bantu) Songs, Stories, Praises -- Writing of European Settlement: South Africa 1652-1910. Images of Africa, 1652-1820. The Story of Frontier, 1820s-1870s. Anglicisation and the Afrikaans Language Movements, 1875-1930. The Story of the Colony Fiction, 1880- -- African or Colonial Literature: 1880s to 1960s. The Colonial Past in the Independent State. Belonging and Belief in South Africa, 1910-1948. Europe and Africa. Belonging and Belief in South Africa, 1910-1948. Africa and Europe. Identity and the Apartheid State, 1948-1970 -- Commissioned by the Nation, Commissioned by the Society. Independence, Post-Independence. Pt. 1. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Pt. 2. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Pt. 3. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Pt. 4. Malawi and Zambia: The Writer in the One-party State. Angola and Mozambique. National Ideals and Pragmatic Realities. Zimbabwe: the Unified Nation or the Functioning Society? Namibia: Making a Literature -- Writing in the Interregnum: South Africa, 1970-1995. Black Consciousness and White Africans. The Black Theatre Model. Towards an Aesthetic of South African Theatre. The Story of Community: A Resilient Tradition. The Truth of Fiction and the Fiction of Truth: Writing Novels in the Interregnum. The State of Emergency, the New Southern Africa -- Further References. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Pt. 5. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Pt. 6.

0582053064 0582053072 (pbk.)

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Southern African literature--History and criticism.

PL8014.S63 / C47 1996

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