| Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture Contributor(s): Helgesson, Stefan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415808790 ISBN-13: 9780415808798 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $65.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | African - History | Africa - South - General - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6" W x 9" (0.54 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southern Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique. Stefan Helgesson suggests that the prevalence of 'colonial' languages such as English and Portuguese in 'anticolonial' or 'postcolonial' African Literature is primarily an effect of the print network. Helgesson aims to demystify the authority of English and Portuguese by stressing the materiality of the print medium and emphasising the strong transnational and transcontinental vectors of southern African literature after the Second World War. |