It is 1994. South Africa, which has been under the iron grip of grand apartheid, is having its
first democratic elections. JM Coetzee, arguably the country's most prominent writer …

Until recently, studies of postcolonial African novels emphasized the genre's relation to
anticolonial critique and its expression of collective resistance. In response to the …

Raymond Williams has pointed out that hegemony never" just passively ist [s] as a form of
dominance. It has continually to be renewed, recreated, d fended, and modified. It is also …

A lthough African countries have been independent since the 1960s, criticism of each
country's art and literature continues to be heavily influenced by European literary models …

These words from one of the most robust critics of colonialism among the Francophone
negritudinists introduces a subject I want to explore: deeply embedded in African anti …

The originality and energy of African fiction in the 1960s and 1970s derived in part from the
fusion of the allegory and symbolism of indigenous narratives with the modes of European …

A careful reading of the fictions that are being published in South Africa today reveals a
harrowing truth, whose theme-handling hideousness, lack of linguistic heartiness, only the …

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myth of beginning... stories and moods in those who... still believe in my teries"(6; emphasis …

The paper describes and analyses the political agenda of current African writers. These
writers attempt to fill the lacuna of uncertainty about the political in the postcolonial era …

Based upon brief comparisons with other literatures, the article examines the current
debates on South African literature, isolating four symptoms which seem to indicate national …