Rendering Things Visible: Essays on South African Literary Culture

By Martin Trump

Much recent critical practice, sharpened by an engagement with theory, has questioned conventional notions about literature. There has been a tendency to democratize our understanding of literature, so as to include a wide range of cultural practices that might formerly have been excluded from literary-critical concern. In addition, more attention is being paid to the conditions surrounding literary production and teaching.

Critical projects of this kind have a particular urgency and relevance in South Africa today. The country is characterized by processes of repression and democratic struggle. Debates about South African literature take place within a context where there are intimate links between political and literary discourses. The essays in this book reveal the complex and arguably inevitable politicization of South African literary culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082140993X
• ISBN13: 9780821409930
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 415 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"