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Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and the Politics of Place

Book by Rita Barnard; Oxford University Press, 2007

Subjects:

Apartheid In Literature, Place (Philosophy) In Literature, Politics And Literature--South Africa--History--20th Century, South Africa--In Literature, South Africa--Politics And Government--1994-, South African Literature (English)--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...part that, despite his rejection of the designation South African writer, his fiction has to be understood in some sort of...readers have to become literary tourists, or that the South African settings of (some of) his major novels hold the...
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Colonization, Violence, and Narration in White South African Writing: Andre Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, and J.M. Coetzee

Book by Rosemary Jane Jolly; Ohio University Press, 1996

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Afrikaans Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Breytenbach, Breyten--Criticism And Interpretation, Brink, Andrae Philippus--1935---Ambassadeur--English, Coetzee, J. M.--1940---Criticism And Interpretation, South African Fiction (English)--History And Criticism, Violence In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...interaction between "the writer" and "the reader...member of the Afrikaner writers movement known as the...the atmosphere here in South Africa so stifling and...shied away from the real South African scene and the issues...compete with, say, a writer like John Fowles, or...
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White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History

Book by George M. Fredrickson; Oxford University Press, 1981

Subjects:

African Americans--Civil Rights, Blacks--Civil Rights--South Africa, Indians Of North America--Civil Rights, South Africa--Race Relations, United States--Race Relations, White Supremacy Movements--South Africa--History, White Supremacy Movements--United States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the extent of mixed marriage in South Africa was very difficult and depended...98 Sarah Gertrude Millin, a South African writer of the 1920s, vividly described...is no distinction. . . ." In South Africa, on the other hand...
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A Book of South African Verse

Book by Guy Butler; Oxford University Press, 1959

Subjects:

South Africa--Poetry, South African Poetry (English)

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...Since the age of fourteen visits to South Africa infrequent. Has been a free-lance writer, and also engaged in Forestry...1900 to 1908 the family visited South Africa every year. Most of his South African verse appeared in The Five Nations...
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Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa

Book by James T. Campbell; Oxford University Press, 1995

Subjects:

African American Methodists--Missions--South Africa--History, African Methodist Episcopal Church--South Africa--History, African Methodist Episcopal Church--United States--History, Blacks--Missions--South Africa--History, Missions, American--South Africa--History, South Africa--Church History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

first African Americans that most South Africans had ever seen, the...abiding impact on South African black culture, as...sophistication among black South Africans, especially in cities...physical appearance, the writer concluded: Hear...

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Journal Articles on: south african writer

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Truth And/or Reconciliation: South African English Literature after Apartheid1

Journal article by Andrew Foley; AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, 2007

Subjects:

African history, Apartheid, English literature, Literary criticism, South Africa, South African literature, Writers

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...readership for poetry in South Africa is just too limited...of contrast, several writers have attracted considerable...ambiguities of the new South Africa, as well as...Chapman in his Southern African Literatures51 as "the...work in the lives of South Africans in the new dispensation...
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Tom Dent's Role in the Organizational Mentoring of African American Southern Writers: A Memoir

Journal article by Quo Vadis Gex Breaux; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

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African American authors--Biography, African American authors--Works, African American writers--Biography, African American writers--Works, Authors--Biography, Authors--Services, Authors--Works, Dent, Thomas C.--Biography, Dent, Thomas C.--Services, Dent, Thomas C.--Works, Writers--Biography, Writers--Services, Writers--Works

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...Organizational Mentoring of African American Southern Writers...keep a group of Black writers workshopping in New...through the Congo Square Writers Union in the 1980s all...mentor and friend, South African poet Keorapetse...mentor, he was poet, writer, journalist, administrator...the literature of the South. Tom told me once that...
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Toyin Falola and Barbara Harlow (Eds), African Writers and Their Readers: Essays in Honor of Bernth Lindfors, Vol. 2

Journal article by Fiona Johnson Chalamanda; Africa, Vol. 74, 2004

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African Writers and Their Readers: Essays in Honor of Bernth Lindfors, vol. 2 (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

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...Barbara Harlow (Eds), African Writers and Their Readers: Essays...located in Australia, South Africa, the Mediterranean...geographies: North/East South and encompasses explorations...Nigerian Ben Okri, to South Africa and Lesotho. Here...
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Interrogating the Silences: Julia C. Collins, 19th-Century Black Readers and Writers, and the Christian Recorder

Journal article by Mitch Kachun; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

Subjects:

African American literature--Authorship, African American literature--Criticism and interpretation, African American literature--Works, African American women authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American women authors--Works, African American women writers--Criticism and interpretation, African American women writers--Works, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Authorship, American literature--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--Works, Christian Recorder (Periodical)--History, Collins, Julia C.--Criticism and interpretation, Collins, Julia C.--Influence, Collins, Julia C.--Works, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (Novel)--Authorship, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Harper, these writers sought the moral...development of African American readers...in the happy writer. We are sure...American reader and writer in the nineteenth...creative work of African American writers. Works Cited...Lost History of African American Literary...Church in the South, 1865-1900...Speakers and Writers in the North...
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Native Geography: Richard Wright's Work for the Federal Writers' Project in Chicago

Journal article by Rosemary Hathaway; African American Review, Vol. 42, 2008

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African American literature--Analysis, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Analysis, Authors--Influence, Authors--Works, Ellison, Ralph--Influence, Ellison, Ralph--Works, Writers--Influence, Writers--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of the general history of African Americans may partly confirm...joined in the fall of 1935 as a writer and as the only African American in a supervisory...1936, then returned to the Writers Project until he left Chicago...with Nelson Algren that "The writer whom the Illinois Writers Project helped the most was...

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Magazine Articles on: south african writer

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Commentary: The South African Writer Rian Malan Grew Up in Revolt against His Colonial Inheritance. His First and Only Book Offers Vital Insights into the White Man's Experience of Apartheid

Magazine article by Jason Cowley; New Statesman, Vol. 134, March 14, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, My Traitor's Heart (Book)--Book reviews

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Commentary: The South African Writer Rian Malan Grew Up in Revolt...Cowley On a recent visit to South Africa, I asked friends--academics, writers, journalists--to recommend...feels as a privileged white South African to have lived through...
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Should Africa Be Grateful for Colonialism? A British-Born South African Columnist, David Bullard, Thinks Africa Should Be Grateful for Colonialism. but His Black Editor Is Fed Up with His Bile and Has Fired Him, Creating Another Race Controversy in South Africa, Reports Pusch Commey from Johannesburg

Magazine article by Pusch Commey; New African, May 2008

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African writers--Practice, Authors, African--Practice, British colonialism--Evaluation, British colonialism--Social aspects, Bullard, David--Practice, Employee dismissals--Social aspects, Employment terminations--Social aspects, Journalism--Social aspects, Racism--Evaluation

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...Another Race Controversy in South Africa, Reports Pusch...popular columnist of the South African weekly newspaper, Sunday...witty, controversial writer, he has had the audacity...itself dominated by white South Africans. The British-born...
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Cyril Ramaphosa: Tomorrow's Man? Although Thabo Mbeki's Presidency of South Africa Still Has Two and a Half Years to Run, Speculation Is Growing on Who Will Succeed Him in 2009. in the First of a Series of Articles Looking at the Various Front-Runners, Neil Ford Profiles Cyril Ramaphosa, Probably S Africa's Currently Most Successful Businessman

Magazine article by Neil Ford; African Business, November 2006

Subjects:

African National Congress--Political activity, Mbeki, Thabo--Political activity, Presidential elections--Forecasts and trends, Presidential elections--Political aspects, Presidents--Elections, Presidents--Forecasts and trends, Presidents--Political aspects, Ramaphosa, Cyril--Political activity, South Africa--Political aspects

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...increasing number of South African political observers have noted...course of this year. South African writer William Gumede, the author...ANC, says: "When South African business tycoon Cyril Ramaphosa...is often besieged by South Africans of all colours and political...
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Not Redundant after All: Politics in the New South Africa Galvanises Liberal Writers Just as Much as It Did under Apartheid, as the Award-Winning Playwright Athol Fugard (Right) Tells Richard Brooks

Magazine article by Richard Brooks; New Statesman, Vol. 135, March 20, 2006

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Dramatists--Behavior, Dramatists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Dramatists--Works, Fugard, Athol--Behavior, Fugard, Athol--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Fugard, Athol--Works, Playwrights--Behavior, Playwrights--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Playwrights--Works, South Africa--Political aspects, South Africa--Social aspects, South Africans--Social aspects

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...Galvanises Liberal Writers Just as Much...Fugard is arguably South Africas greatest...Fugard, a liberal South African, lives...heard in other African countries...millions of Southern Africans. Fugard, whose...Africa from other African countries. They...black people in South Africa. "Ive...oppressive regime. "Writers like myself...first redundant writer." The remark...
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Toronto Circle: In Accomplished Stories and Novels South Asian Writers Who Are Exiles in Canada Are Re-creating the Worlds They Left Behind

Magazine article by Jamie James; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, April 2000

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Asian writers, Canada, Canadian literature, Canadian writers, Mistry, Rohinton, Selvadurai, Shyam, South Asians--Canada, Vassanji, M.G.

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...established the Toronto South Asian Review. One...question that these writers form a school...Rohinton Mistry to be a South Asian writer. If Mistry isnt...him an Indian-African-Canadian novelist...himself a Sri Lankan writer, saying that Cinnamon...concerns of these writers are entirely those...

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Newspaper Articles on: south african writer

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Racial Quotas Needed to Be Put in Place; Dale Benkenstein Was Sick of the Racial Politics in South African Sport by the Time He Signed for Durham, but He Recognises It Has Been a Necessary Evil. He Explained to Chief Sports Writer Luke Edwards Why

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), May 27, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Racial Politics in South African Sport by the Time He Signed...Explained to Chief Sports Writer Luke Edwards Why. IT...to be lanced in a new South Africa free from racial...as president in 1994, South Africa was changing as...
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WHY LIVE AID D IS DEAD AID; We Applaud Ourselves for Giving to the Third World, but a New Book by an African Writer Argues the Billions It Receives in Aid Are the Reason It's Trapped in Dire Poverty

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 12, 2009

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Live Aid, 1985

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...New Book by an African Writer Argues the Billions...and self-sufficient Africans have to go begging the...at summits. Ordinary Africans do not, on the whole...Africa really needs? Africans themselves have ideas...listen. But as one such African comments: My voice...ore and platinum from South Africa, timber from...
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Africans Are Ready to Rock the World; the World Cup Will Be Held in Africa for the First Time This Year and Sunderland Defender John Mensah Argues the African Cup of Nations Could Give Us an Early Glimpse of the Eventual Winners. Chief Sports Writer Luke Edwards Reports

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), January 6, 2010

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Continents, Professional soccer

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...John Mensah Argues the African Cup of Nations Could...Winners. Chief Sports Writer Luke Edwards Reports...famine and disease, yet African football has never shown...football, however, Africans have found more than...established powers. South American countries have...matter of time before African national sides do likewise...
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After 'Tsotsi'; Director Hopes Oscar Spurs South African Filmmaking

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 14, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Director Hopes Oscar Spurs South African Filmmaking. Byline...THE WASHINGTON TIMES Writer-director Gavin Hood...friendship between two South African students. The...all too well. Like the South African lad in the film...
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Nelson's Victory; It Was the Day Mandela Finally Won over His Enemies in South Africa. A London-Born Writer Tells How a Nameless Babysitter Inspired the Story Behind Invictus, the Oscar-Tipped Film about the 1995 Rugby World Cup

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 14, 2010

Subjects:

Carlin, John, Invictus (Motion picture), Mandela, Nelson, Rugby football, World Cup (Rugby football)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Africa. A London-Born Writer Tells How a Nameless Babysitter...final in which underdogs South Africa beat New Zealand...343-year history of South Africa that the country...and Matt Damon as the South African rugby captain Francois...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: south african writer

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Mphahlele, Es'Kia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Eskia Mphahlele)eske mf la la, 1919 2008, South African writer, grad. Univ. of South Africa (M.A., 1956). He began his career...Man Must Live, in 1947. He emigrated from South Africa in 1957, when the government banned him...
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Gordimer, Nadine

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...NADINE naden gor d m r, 1923 , South African writer, b. Springs. She published her...Stories (2007). A member of the African National Congress , Gordimer was often militantly critical of South African life in her fiction. She...
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Head, Bessie

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

HEAD, BESSIE 1937 86, South African writer. Born in South Africa to a white mother and black father, she...Maru (1971), and A Bewitched Crossroad: An African Saga (1984); a collection of stories, The Collector...
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Breytenbach, Breyten

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...BREYTEN bri t n bri t nbakh, 1939 , South African writer, painter, and activist. Although...opponent of apartheid . He left South Africa in 1960, settling in Paris...accounts of three different returns to South Africa, the haunting A Season...
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Millin, Sarah Gertrude (Liebson)

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...GERTRUDE (LIEBSON) 1889 1968, South African writer. The first of her novels about colonial and racial problems in South Africa is Dark River (1920...has also written a study, The South Africans (1926), and biographies of...

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