The literature police : apartheid censorship and its cultural consequences

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

"Peter D. McDonald brings to light a wealth of new evidence - from the once secret archives of the censorship bureaucracy, from the records of resistance publishers and writers' groups both in the country and abroad - and uses extensive oral testimony. He tells the strangely tangled storie...

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Main Author: McDonald, Peter D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Censorship > South Africa > History.
South African literature > Censorship.
Apartheid > South Africa.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Censorship.
Apartheid
Censorship
Literatur
Zensur
Bellettrie.
Censuur.
Apartheid.
Literatur.
Englisch.
Afrikaans.
Zensur.
South Africa
Südafrika > Kontinent
Zuid-Afrika.
Südafrika (Staat)
History
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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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