Southern African Literatures

This is a major study of the work of writers from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Angola, Mozambique and Namibia, written at a time of crucial change in the subcontinent. It covers a wide range of work from the storytelling of stone-age Bushmen to modern writing by renowned figures such as Es'kia Mphahlele, Nadine Gordimer and Andre Brink, encompassing traditional, popular and elite writing, literature in translation, and case studies based on topical issues.

Softcover. English. Longman. 1996. ISBN: 9780582053076. 576 pp. Good. Book No: 2504549