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Nadine Gordimer : a bibliography of primary and secondary sources
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Year: 1994 Publisher: London ; Melbourne New Jersey H. Zell

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Mind your colour: the coloured stereotype in South African literature
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ISBN: 0710300026 9780710300027 Year: 1991 Publisher: London: Kegan Paul,

A story of South Africa : J.M. Coetzee's fiction in context
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ISBN: 0674839722 9780674839724 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge (MA) : Harvard University Press,

Nadine Gordimer Revisited
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ISBN: 0805746080 0805718834 9780805746082 Year: 1999 Publisher: Gale

The dramatic art of Athol Fugard
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ISBN: 1282062832 0253109000 9780253109002 9781282062832 0253338239 9780253338235 0253215048 9780253215048 Year: 2000 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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"Albert Wertheim's study of Fugard's plays is both extremely insightful and beautifully written... This book is aimed not only at teachers, students, scholars, and performers of Fugard but also at the person who simply loves going to see a Fugard play at the theatre." -Nancy Topping Bazin, Eminent Scholar and Professor Emerita, Old Dominion UniversityAthol Fugard is considered one of the most brilliant, powerful, and theatrically astute of modern dramatists. The energy and poignancy of his work have their origins in the institutionalized racism of his native South Africa, and more recently in the issues facing a new South Africa after apartheid. Albert Wertheim analyzes the form and content of Fugard's dramas, showing that they are more than a dramatic chronicle of South African life and racial problems. Beginning with the specifics of his homeland, Fugard's plays reach out to engage more far-reaching issues of human relationships, race and racism, and the power of art to evoke change. The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard demonstrates how Fugard's plays enable us to see that what is performed on stage can also be performed in society and in our lives; how, inverting Shakespeare, Athol Fugard makes his stage the world.

Athol Fugard
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ISBN: 0074506595 0074506579 007450634X 0074506609 0074506587 0074506331 0074506153 9780074506332 9780074506592 Year: 1982 Volume: 3 Publisher: New York, NY : McGraw-Hill,


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J. M. Coetzee and the paradox of postcolonial authorship
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ISBN: 9780754654629 9780754696742 0754654621 075469674X 9781315590233 9781317111627 9781317111634 Year: 2009 Publisher: Farnham Burlington : Ashgate,

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In her analysis of the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee's literary and intellectual career, Jane Poyner illuminates the author's abiding preoccupation with what Poyner calls the "paradox of postcolonial authorship". Writers of conscience or conscience-stricken writers of the kind Coetzee portrays, whilst striving symbolically to bring the stories of the marginal and the oppressed to light, always risk reimposing the very authority they seek to challenge. From Dusklands to Diary of a Bad Year, Poyner traces how Coetzee rehearses and revises his understanding of the ethics of intellectualism in parallel with the emergence of the "new South Africa". She contends that Coetzee's modernist aesthetics facilitate a more exacting critique of the problems that encumber postcolonial authorship, including the authority it necessarily engenders. Poyner is attentive to the ways Coetzee's writing addresses the writer's proper role with respect to the changing ethical demands of contemporary political life. Theoretically sophisticated and accessible, her book is a major contribution to our understanding of the Nobel Laureate and to postcolonial studies.

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