Emerging Traditions : Toward a Postcolonial Stylistics of Black South African Fiction in English.

The book, an academic monograph, is a comprehensive study of the socio-linguistics of black South African literature in English from its beginnings, grounded in historical and political change as befits a postcolonial approach, with the inherent struggles between language and power. Its innovation i...

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Main Author: Briault Manus, Vicki
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2012.
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505 0 |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: 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; Chapter 2: 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. 
505 8 |a Chapter 3: Under Control (1948-1960): Tsotsis, Tough-talking Journalists from the Urban Ghetto and the Post-Creole ContinuumCase-study Three: Can Themba, the Poet-laureate of the Township; Chapter 4: Dislocation (1960-1976): Colored or Creole? Writing 'Between Two Fires' in the Sixties; Case-study Four: "The Park" and other stories by James Matthews; Chapter 5: Deadlock (1976-1990): The Old is Dying and the New Cannot be Born; Case-study Five: Stylistic Analysis of Oggzee by Don Mattera; Chapter 6: Breakthrough (1990 and After): Multiple Identities and 'Emerging Traditions' 
505 8 |a Case-study Six: Welcome to our Hillbrow by Phaswane MpeConclusion; Bibliography; Appendix; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author. 
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