• DOI:10.1353/NLH.1998.0002
Corpus ID: 161396350

The Problem of Identity: South Africa, Storytelling, and Literary History

@article{Chapman1998ThePO,
  title={The Problem of Identity: South Africa, Storytelling, and Literary History},
  author={M. Chapman},
  journal={New Literary History},
  year={1998},
  volume={29},
  pages={85 - 99}
}

M. Chapman

Published 1998

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New Literary History

Commission with families and friends recollecting those who were bludgeoned to death by the forces of the racist state? A single-authored literary history, Southern African Literatures covers work from the expression of stone-age Bushmen to that of writers such as Gordimer, Brink, Breytenbach, and Coetzee. In considering the questions of what constitutes a usable past, what value may be assigned to traditional, elite, and popular forms, generally how after apartheid one might understand the… CONTINUE READING

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