Michael Chapman: Chapman, M: Literary Transactions in South Africa, Fester Einband

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"This study's purpose - its politics of interpretation - is to open literature to the potential of human experience in both the personal and the public life. The society of focus - South Africa - is a society of political contestation. Instead of prioritizing the what of contestation, however, the author explores contestation through the how of the literary work. Through the works of writers like J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Roy Campbell and Mtutuzeli Matshoba, the book pursues the challenge of interpreting a literature of disjuncture between Africa and the West, or the South and the North"--