The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences
Author:   Peter D. McDonald (Fellow of St Hugh's College and Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199591114


Pages:   434
Publication Date:   14 October 2010
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Peter D. McDonald (Fellow of St Hugh's College and Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.10cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.596kg
ISBN:  

9780199591114


ISBN 10:   0199591113
Pages:   434
Publication Date:   14 October 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Note to the Reader Part I: Creating Spaces/Guarding Borders 1: Censors 2: Publishers 3: Writers Part II: Singular Situations/Disruptive Moments 1: Nadine Gordimer and the Strength of African Fiction 2: Afrikan versus Volks Humanism: Es'kia Mphahlele's Worldly Music and the Transcendent Space of Culture 3: Connected versus Internal Critics: Breytenbach, Leroux and the Volk Avant Garde 4: BLAC Books, Black (Anti-)Poetics 5: J. M. Coetzee: The Provincial Storyteller 6: Protest and Beyond: Third-World People's Stories in the Staffrider Series Postscript Acknowledgements Chronology Bibliography

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For South Africans, Peter McDonald's brilliant book will explain many perplexing events and help to heal many wounds. For the rest of us it is food for thought about our own professional judgements, and about the situation of creative writing in our own society. The Australian Library Journal


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