South African London : writing the metropolis after 1948 /

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This book presents 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thorpe, Andrea (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
1900-1999
South African literature (English) > 20th century > History and criticism.
Authors, Exiled > South Africa.
Littérature sud-africaine (anglaise) > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Écrivains exilés > Afrique du Sud.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century .
Authors, Exiled
Literature
South African literature (English)
London (England) > In literature.
England > London
South Africa
J.M. Coetzee.
London literature.
Postcolonial.
South African literature.
anti-colonialism.
apartheid.
diaspora.
exile.
modernisms.
modernity.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on terminology
  • Introduction: Through the 'eyes' of London
  • 1 Peter Abrahams and Dan Jacobson: South African liberal humanists in postwar London
  • Detour
  • 2 Swinging city: Todd Matshikiza's contrapuntal London writing
  • 3 Waiting and watching in the city's pleasure streets: Arthur Nortje's poems set in London
  • Detour
  • 4 Securing the past: self-reflexive, retrospective narratives of London in J.M. Coetzee's Youth and Justin Cartwright's In Every Face I Meet
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Index

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