Reinventing a continent : writing and politics in South Africa
by
Brink, André P. (André Philippus), 1935-2015.
Title
:
Reinventing a continent : writing and politics in South Africa
Author
:
Brink, André P. (André Philippus), 1935-2015.
ISBN
:
9780944072899
Personal Author
:
Brink, André P. (André Philippus), 1935-2015.
Publication Information
:
Cambridge, Mass. : Zoland Books, 1998.
Physical Description
:
xiv, 274 p. ; 22 cm.
General Note
:
Originally published: London : Secker & Warburg, 1996.
Contents
:
Preface / Nelson Mandela -- Speaking in Voices -- A State of Emergency -- The Hour of the Idiots -- The Arts in Society -- Visions of the Future -- Afrikaners -- Mandela Free -- Reflections on Literature and History -- Reimagining the Real -- The Dove in the Grave -- Literature and Control -- Literature as Cultural Opposition -- A Farm in Africa -- Towards a Syncretic Future -- Foul Play -- Reinventing a Continent -- Sentimental Journey -- Epilogue: Revisiting Dakar.
Abstract
:
An international bestselling author of eleven novels, Andre Brink here chronicles an extraordinary period of social change in South Africa, in his first new work of nonfiction in fifteen years. From the darkest and most oppressive years of apartheid, through the release of Nelson Mandela from prison and the negotiations of a peaceful settlement, to the first years of a fledgling democracy with all its euphoria and misgivings, Reinventing A Continent charts the cultural, individual and literary meanings of freedom and repression.
Geographic Term
:
South Africa -- Civilization -- 20th century.
South Africa -- Race relations.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
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| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168015677228 | 968 B858R 1998 | 1 |