| South Africa in the Global Imaginary Contributor(s): De Kock, Leon (Editor), Bethlehem, Louise (Editor), Laden, Sonja (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1868882608 ISBN-13: 9781868882601 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $44.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2004 Annotation: This award-winning collection of essays about culture and identity was written from the perspective of post-apartheid South Africa. Voted best special issue of 2001 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journal. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Interior Design - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 306.096 |
| LCCN: 2004448570 |
| Series: Imagined South Africa |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.76" W x 9.44" (1.16 lbs) 308 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Sister outsiders" draws attention to a neglected corpus of writing in South African literary criticism. The focus is on the exclusion of Indian women's writings in South Africa, which must be seen as a dimension of the larger exclusion of women's writings, white and black, from South African literature in general. The book provides an historical account of the events that contributed to the marginalisation of black literature - specifically Indian women's literature - amongst other things, the institutionalisation of English Studies which affected the reading and reception of texts written by Indian women, and the contstruction of an indigenous English literary tradition that did not include black writers as much as it did white writers of English descent, writing about South African experiences. |