Literature Police - Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences

Zusatztext I recommend this complex book and the associated website - www.theliteraturepolice.com - not just to students of South African literatue and history, but to readers of all kinds Klappentext Uncovers the tangled stories of censorship and literature in apartheid South Africa, drawing on a wealth of new evidence from censorship archives, archives of resistance publishers and writers' groups, and oral testimony. A unique perspective on one of the most repressive, anachronistic, and racist states in the post-war era. Zusammenfassung Uncovers the tangled stories of censorship and literature in apartheid South Africa, drawing on a wealth of new evidence from censorship archives, archives of resistance publishers and writers' groups, and oral testimony. A unique perspective on one of the most repressive, anachronistic, and racist states in the post-war era. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Note to the Reader Part I: Creating Spaces/Guarding Borders 1: Censors 2: Publishers 3: Writers Part II: Singular Situations/Disruptive Moments 1: Nadine Gordimer and the Strength of African Fiction 2: Afrikan versus Volks Humanism: Es'kia Mphahlele's Worldly Music and the Transcendent Space of Culture 3: Connected versus Internal Critics: Breytenbach, Leroux and the Volk Avant Garde 4: BLAC Books, Black (Anti-)Poetics 5: J. M. Coetzee: The Provincial Storyteller 6: Protest and Beyond: Third-World People's Stories in the Staffrider Series Postscript Acknowledgements Chronology Bibliography

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• Authors: Peter D McDonald, Peter D. McDonald, Peter D. (Fellow of St Hugh''s College a Mcdonald, Peter D. (Fellow of St Hugh's College and Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford) McDonald, McDonald Peter D.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2010
• EAN: 9780199591114
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959111-4
• No. of pages: 434
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900, Ethische Themen: Zensur, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Ethical Issues: Censorship, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Ethical issues: censorship / freedom of expression