Beschreibung:

XIII, 230 S. ; 23 cm, kart.

Bemerkung:

Tadelloses Exemplar. - Preface -- PART i The Imperative to Imagine the Unimaginable Writing a web of nations Orature, literature and the media -- The imperative to imagine the unimaginable: J.M. Coetzee's Doubling the Point -- "Nothing less than the writing of our own texts": Njabulo Ndebele's Rediscovery of the Ordinary -- 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 Projections in the Past Tense -- "That invention of the working class": Sandile Dikeni's Guava Juice -- "Standing armed on our own ground": Barry Feinberg's Gardens of Struggle -- Vincent Swart or the malaise of South African poetry -- Poetry to sing at Rosies and All that Jazz: Heather Robertson, Under the Sun -- The poet has nothing but his voice: On the poetry of Tatamkhulu Afrika -- The spaces between: Tatamkhulu Afrika, Maqabane (Mayibuye 1994) -- At a certain distance from hell: -- Patrick Cullinan, Selected Poems 1961-1994 -- "The purple pink salt of songs without heads": Seitlhamo Motsapi's earthstepper/the ocean is very shallow -- PART II The Difficulties of Memory -- Dostoevsky in Cape Town: J.M. Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg -- I am dead: you cannot read. Andre Brinks On the Contrary The difficulties of memory: Christopher Hope's Serenity House -- The mysterious patterns of everyday life in a colony: Christopher Hope's The Love Songs of Nathan]. Swirsky -- A house/a story hanging by a thread: Ivan Vladislavic's The Folly The genealogy of shame: Etienne van Heerden's Ancestral Voices The myth of the wave: Mike Nicol's This Day and Age / u.a. ISBN 9783034318648