LEADER 03128nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910970463703321 005 20251116230833.0 010 $a0-8214-4231-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000522475 035 $a(OCoLC)191928830 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10170557 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000283724 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11912549 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000283724 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10248214 035 $a(PQKB)11624780 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3026934 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3026934 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170557 035 $a(BIP)35538444 035 $a(BIP)13462068 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000522475 100 $a20060821e20062005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRewriting modernity $estudies in Black South African literary history /$fDavid Attwell 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAthens $cOhio University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (246 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005. 311 08$a0-8214-1711-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The transculturation of enlightenment -- 2 Time and narrative -- 3 Modernising tradition -- 4 Fugitive pieces -- 5 Lyric and epic -- 6 The experimental turn -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index. 330 $aRewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History connects the black literary archive in South Africa--from the nineteenth-century writing of Tiyo Soga to Zakes Mda in the twenty-first century--to international postcolonial studies via the theory of transculturation, a position adapted from the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz. David Attwell provides a welcome complication of the linear black literary history--literature as a reflection of the process of political emancipation--that is so often presented. He focuses on cultural transactions in a series of key moments and argues that black writers in South Africa have used print culture to map themselves onto modernity as contemporary subjects, to negotiate, counteract, reinvent, and recast their positioning within colonialism, apartheid, and the context of democracy. 606 $aSouth African literature$xBlack authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSouth African literature (English)$xBlack authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aApartheid in literature 606 $aPolitics in literature 615 0$aSouth African literature$xBlack authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSouth African literature (English)$xBlack authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aApartheid in literature. 615 0$aPolitics in literature. 676 $a809/.8968 700 $aAttwell$b David$0628186 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970463703321 996 $aRewriting modernity$91229273 997 $aUNINA