Thorpe South African London

Writing the metropolis after 1948
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4856-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

South African London studies literary responses to London by exiled and émigré South Africans between 1948 and 2005 and traces the role London played in the development of South African letters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thorpe, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Through the “eyes” of London
1 Peter Abrahams and Dan Jacobson: South African liberal humanists in postwar London
Detour:“I have always been a Londoner”: Noni Jabavu, an unconventional South African in London
2 Swinging City: Todd Matshikiza’s contrapuntal London writing
3 Waiting and Watching in the city’s pleasure streets: Arthur Nortje’s poems set in London
Detour: South African writers and London networks of black British activism
4 Securing the past: Self-reflexive, retrospective narratives of London in J.M. Coetzee’s Youth and Justin Cartwright’s In Every Face I Meet
Epilogue: Between the cracks of the city: Transnational Solidarities in Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Thorpe teaches academic skills at QA Higher Education, London, and is a research associate of the University of Johannesburg.