The Oral-style South African Short Story In English.A.W. Drayson to H.C. Bosman.
Series: Cross/Cultures 37
Publisher: Rodopi Bv Editions
Published: January 1999
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9789042005273
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Short stories; Republic of South Africa; African; English; Literary Criticism
First sentence: THE POINT OF DEPARTURE TAKEN HERE is the notion that, in the diachronic view of human history, writing (hence written literature) was preceded by many thousands of years of cultural life rooted in oral discourse.