The literature police: apartheid censorship and its cultural consequences

Uncovers the tangled stories of censorship and literature in apartheid South Africa, drawing on a wealth of new evidence from censorship archives, archivesof resistance publishers and writers' groups, and oral testimony. A unique perspective on one of the most repressive, anachronistic, and racist states in the post-war era. INDICE: Preface; Note to the Reader; Part I: Creating Spaces/Guarding Borders; 1: Censors; 2: Publishers; 3: Writers; Part II: Singular Situations/Disruptive Moments; 1: Nadine Gordimer and the Strength of African Fiction; 2: Afrikan versus Volks Humanism: Es'kia Mphahlele's Worldly Music and the Transcendent Space of Culture; 3: Connected versus Internal Critics: Breytenbach, Leroux and the Volk Avant Garde; 4: BLAC Books, Black (Anti-)Poetics; 5: J. M. Coetzee: The Provincial Storyteller; 6: Protest and Beyond: Third-World People'sStories in the Staffrider Series; Postscript; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Bibliography

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959111-4
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 432
• Fecha Publicación: 14/10/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés