The literature police : apartheid censorship and its cultural consequences /

The literature police : apartheid censorship and its cultural consequences / Peter D. McDonald.

"As the history of many repressive regimes shows, this vital borderline has seldom been so clearly demarcated. Just how murky it can sometimes be is compellingly exemplified in the case of apartheid South Africa. For reasons that were neither obvious nor historically inevitable, the apartheid c...

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Main Author: McDonald, Peter D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Censorship > South Africa > History.
South African literature > Censorship.
Apartheid > South Africa.
Censorship.
Apartheid.
Table of Contents:
  • Censors
  • Publishers
  • Writers
  • Nadine Gordimer and the strength of the African novel
  • Afrikan versus Volks humanism : Es'kia Mphahlele's worldly music and the transcendent space of culture
  • Connected versus internal critics : Breytenbach, Leroux, and the Volk avant-garde
  • BLAC books, black (anti- )poetics
  • J.M. Coetzee : the provincial storyteller
  • Protest and beyond : third world people's stories in the Staffrider series.

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