Early Black South African writing in English
By: Bernth Lindfors
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Blacks; Black authors; Interviews; History and criticism; African Authors; South African literature (English); South African literature; Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ambiguity of evil in Thomas Mofolo's Chaka; title: Exile and aesthetic distance: geographical influences on Peter Abrahams; title: The short happy life of the South African short story, 1951-1963; title: The emergence of popular protest poetry and drama; title: Love in oppressive times: South Africa's first Indian novel; title: Strategies of protest in Alex la Guma's A walk in the night; title: Dialectical development in the poetry of Dennis Brutus; title: Dennis Brutus and his critics; title: The rise and fall of Mbongeni Ngema; title: Interviews: Dennis Brutus, Ezekiel [Es'kia] Mphahlele, Richard Rive, Njabulo Ndebele.