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Journal articles on the topic "South African prose literature (English) – Black authors – History and criticism"

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Jones, Timothy. "The Black Mass as Play: Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out." M/C Journal 17, no. 4 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.849.

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Literature—at least serious literature—is something that we work at. This is especially true within the academy. Literature departments are places where workers labour over texts carefully extracting and sharing meanings, for which they receive monetary reward. Specialised languages are developed to describe professional concerns. Over the last thirty years, the productions of mass culture, once regarded as too slight to warrant laborious explication, have been admitted to the academic workroom. Gothic studies—the specialist area that treats fearful and horrifying texts —has embraced the growi

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Franks, Rachel. "A Taste for Murder: The Curious Case of Crime Fiction." M/C Journal 17, no. 1 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.770.

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Introduction Crime fiction is one of the world’s most popular genres. Indeed, it has been estimated that as many as one in every three new novels, published in English, is classified within the crime fiction category (Knight xi). These new entrants to the market are forced to jostle for space on bookstore and library shelves with reprints of classic crime novels; such works placed in, often fierce, competition against their contemporaries as well as many of their predecessors. Raymond Chandler, in his well-known essay The Simple Art of Murder, noted Ernest Hemingway’s observation that “the goo

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "South African prose literature (English) – Black authors – History and criticism"

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Gaylard, Rob. "Writing black : the South African short story by black writers /." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/3224.

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Thackwray, Sarah. "Storytelling and social commentary in a comparison of Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying (1995) and Black Diamond (2009)." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/7149.

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In a comparison of two novels, Ways of Dying (1995) and Black Diamond (2009), this dissertation examines Zakes Mda's ongoing use of fiction in presenting incisive social commentary in the post-apartheid literary context. Mda's debut novel is a complex magic realist tale of Toloki, the professional mourner, who journeys from the village to the urban township. It is markedly different from his post-millennial satire, which invokes the social realist form, constructing a rapidly unfolding plot of urban gangsters, crime and sex, in which the characters are more representational than well-developed

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Midgley, Henry Peter. "Author, ideology and publisher a symbiotic relationship : Lovedale Missionary Press and early Black writing in South Africa: with specific reference to the critical writings of H.I.E. Dlomo." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002284.

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The specific instances of R.H.W. Shepherd and H.I.E. Dhlomo are used in this thesis to investigate some of the many factors that influence the formation of a colonial literature, such as politics, social structures and personal ideals. By isolating the Lovedale Mission Press ~s a "contact zone" - a·place where the cultures of the colonizer and the colonized come into direct contact with each other - it is possible to trace how the interaction between these cultures shaped the writing of a particular African writer, H.I.E. Dhlomo. This is done through an analysis of historical factors that shap

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Christison, Grant. "African Jerusalem : the vision of Robert Grendon." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2172.

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This thesis discovers the spiritual and aesthetic vision of poet-journalist Robert Grendon (c. 1867–1949), a man of Irish-Herero parentage. It situates him in the wider Swedenborgian discourse regarding African ‘regeneration’. While preserving the overall diachronic continuity of a literary biography, it treats his principal thematic preoccupations synchronically. The objective has been to show the imaginative ways in which he employs his rich and diverse religio-philosophical background to account for South Africa’s social problems, to pass judgement upon the principal players, and to point o

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Makhathini, Bheka A. "Crossing borders : a critical study of Michael Dingake's My fight against apartheid (1987) and Helao Shityuwete's Never follow the wolf : the autobiography of a Namibian freedom fighter (1990)." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/4181.

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Mahala, Siphiwo. "Inside the house of truth : destruction and reconstruction of Can Themba." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25231.

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This study is, by its intention at any rate, an attempt at assembling the scattered fragments of Can Themba’s life to make a composite being out of the various existing phenomena that shaped the contours of his life in both literary and literal senses. Given the disjunctive manner in which Can Themba and his work have been represented thus far, a combination of Historical and Biographical research methods will underpin the approach of this study. The resultant approach is the Historical-Biographical method of research. According to Guerin et al (2005, 22) the Historical-Biographical appr

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Mashige, Mashudu Churchill. "Politics and aesthetics in contemporary black South African poetry." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/7166.

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M.A.<br>In this dissertation an examination is made of the different strands of contemporary South African protest and resistance poetry. This is done by way of analysing selected poems to highlight the relationship which exists between politics and aesthetics and to illustrate that the two concepts are not mutually exclusive. A brief history of written African protest and resistance poetry is provided in an attempt to put this poetry within its historical context and to trace its influences and development. The poems are then examined with the express aim of identifying and understanding thei

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Lockett, Cecily Joan. "Stranger in your midst : a study of South African women's poetry in English." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8766.

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This thesis represents the first extended study of South African poetry in English from a gender perspective. It is conceived in two parts: firstly, a deconstructive analysis of the dominant tradition of South African English poetry in order to reveal its masculine or androcentric base; and secondly, the reconstruction of an alternative gynocentric tradition that gives primacy to women and the feminine in poetry. The first section consists of an examination of the ways in which the feminine has been. excluded from the poetic tradition in historical terms by means of social and economic constra

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Gilfillan, Lynda 1948. "Theorising the counterhegemonic : a critical study of Black South African autobiography from 1954-1963." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3321.

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In this thesis, I examine a critical procedure appropriate to Black South African autobiography of the 1950s and early 1960s. In particular, I examine these autobiographies as examples of counterhegemonic writing in which the self counters the hegemonic apartheid notion of identity, based on racial and cultural purity, and I propose that the hybrid selves encoded in these narratives have the capacity to inform a new South African nationhood. Chapter One necessitates an autocritique, in which I locate my own discourse within the intersecting discursive strands of Western and local theory

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Smith, Stephen. "Restoring the imprisoned community : a study of selected works of H. I. E. and R. R. R. Dhlomo and their role in constructing a sense of African modernity." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2559.

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This is a comparative study of a selection of the works of H.I.E. and R.R.R. Dhlomo in an attempt to specify the ways in which both writers contributed to constructing a sense of African modernity. While the focus will be on the content of the writing, it will include an analysis of the form and style of the literature, as well as the historical and political setting of the work, and of the authors. By employing the theoretical work of Alain Locke, David Attwell and Tim Couzens, I will address the issue of how Herbert and Rolfes Dhlomo negotiate the issue of a Christian modernity, as well as t

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Books on the topic "South African prose literature (English) – Black authors – History and criticism"

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Emerging traditions: Towards a postcolonial stylistics of black South African fiction in English. Lexington Books, 2011.

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Richard, Peck. A morbid fascination: White prose and politics in apartheid South Africa. Greenwood Press, 1997.

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Lindfors, Bernth. Early Black South African writing in English. Africa World Press, 2011.

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Rive, Richard. The Black writer and South African literature. Center for Humanistic Studies, University of Minnesota, 1987.

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Zander, Horst. Fact - fiction - "faction": A study of black South African literature in English. G. Narr, 1999.

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Eke, Maureen N. From the heart: Women and liberation in new writings by Black South African women. Michigan State University, 1993.

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Bowery, Michael. Shred when read : the secret wars in South Africa : memoirs of a South African secret agent and thirty years of covert operations. Crest Publishing, 2009.

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Watts, Jane. Black writers from South Africa: Towards a discourse of liberation. Macmillan in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1989.

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Watts, Jane. Black writers from South Africa: Towards a discourse of liberation. Macmillan in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1989.

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Watts, Jane. Black writers from South Africa: Towards a discourse of liberation. St. Martin's Press, 1989.

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