Mapmakers
Subtitle: writing in a state of siege
By: André Brink.
Publisher: Faber and Faber; Brand: Faber n Faber
Published: 1983
Place of publication: London; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Brink, André Philippus, 1935-  -- Political and social views.; Apartheid -- South Africa.; Afrikaans literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Authorship.; South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1961-1978.; South Africa -- Race relations.
Notes: "Bibliographical note": p. 11-12.
Revised versions of essays previously published.
Table of contents: title: The position of the Afrikaans writer; title: Writers and writing in the world; title: Mahatma Gandhi today; title: On culture and apartheid; title: English and the Afrikaans writer; title: Literature and offence; title: After Soweto; title: Of slaves and masters; title: Mapmakers; title: The writer in a state of siege; title: The intellectual and his world; title: Writing against silence; title: The freedom to publish; title: Imagining the real; title: The languages of culture; title: Censorship and literature.