South African Literary History: Totality and/or Fragment

Edited by Erhard Reckwitz, Karin Reitner and Lucia Vennarini.

15 contributions, including an essay by J. M. Coetzee, deal with topics such as early trends in South African literature, colonialism, race, and the literary mode of the farm novel. Based on the papers at the 1996 Symposium on South African Literary History, South African Studies Centre of the University of Essen. Contents: Erhard Reckwitz: Literary History - A Problem Sketch. - J. M. Coetzee: Gordimer and Turgenev. - Peter Mtuze: Fragments of South African Literary History. Picking up the Pieces. - Stanley Ridge: "Shifting About of Reality": A Literary-Historical Excursion into Three Natal Novels in English (1875-1913). - Johan van Wyk: Hordes, Institutions and Intertexts: Conceptualising South African Literary History. - Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn: The Fragments of a Totalitarian Vision: Indian "National Literature" as an Example of Some Relevance to South Africa? - Zbigniew Bialas: Whose Madagascar? The Case of the Colonised Colon. - Ampie Coetzee: South African Literature and Discursive Formations. Land and the Farm Novel. - Dorothy Driver: Reclaiming Olive Schreiner. A Re-Reading of "From Man to Man". - Liliane Louvel: Totality and/or Fragment. Nadine Gordimer's "The Conservationist". The Figure in the Mosaic. - Dieter Welz: Radical Otherness or True Dissymmetry? Legal Dualism and South African Literature. - Mbulelo Mzamane: Domestication of a Tradition: Early Trends in South African Literature, 1820-1930. - Gareth Comwell: The Moral Economy of Race in Early Twentieth-Century South African English Literature. - Dennis Walder: Questions from a White Man Who Listens. - Michael Green: South African Literary History: The Mark Between the 'And' and 'Or'. 216 Seiten, broschiert (Englischsprachige Literaturen Afrikas/African literatures in English; Vol. 12/Verlag Die Blaue Eule 1997) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear