Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History

by David Attwell

Book Overview

Rewriting 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821417126
• ISBN13: 9780821417126
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"