Introduction
Conjectures on South African literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14961999 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Chapman (0000-0002-1299-8336, University of KwaZulu-Natal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1013-929X • E-ISSN: 2159-9130 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1013929x.2009.9678309 |
| OpenAlex | W2070885456 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 41 |
The Introduction pursues the question of what constitutes South African literature ‘beyond 2000’. If the 1990s identified the challenge of ‘difference’, the challenge now might be ‘connection’. Is literature in South Africa today post‐apartheid or post‐postapartheid
Political science · Sociology · Engineering · Gender Studies · History · Legal Issues in South Africa · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture
Scripting Connections
The National Question in Antjie Krog’s “Transformation Trilogy”
An Absent Presence
“Opening up to the Rest of Africa”
Where to Locate the Self? Gendered Hospitality, African Immigration and White Self-Renewal in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup
You Are Where You Aren’t
Crime, Reality and Nonfiction in Post-Apartheid Writing “If You Can’t Find the Right Story, at Least Get the Story Right”
Writing South Africa into the World
Reflecting on Anglophone (Post)Apartheid Literature Beyond 2000
Imraan Coovadia’s Post-transitional Palimpsest
A public intellectual study of South Africa’s Mike Van Graan
Hyper-compressions
I’m not Afropolitan — I’m of the Continent”
Cuban counterpoint
Whiteness just isn't what it used to be
South Africa in the Global Imaginary
Complicities
On the Sacred in African Literature
Representing Bushmen
J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading
A New Generation of African Writers
A.k.a. Breyten Breytenbach
Do South Africans Exist?
Entanglement
What Is World Literature?
The field of cultural production
Fine Lines from the Box
Southern African Literatures
Splice of life
Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa
A History of South African Literature
Selves in Question
Still Beating the Drum
The Cambridge History of South African Literature
Black atlantics’, ‘white Indians’ and ‘Jews’
Save us all”
Troubled heroism
Toward an Aesthetic of Reception
Africa/India
The Portable Bunyan
The Beauty of InflectionsLiterary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory
Studying Transcultural Literary History
South Africa in the Global Imaginary
Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality
A Primary Need as Strong as Hunger
The Problem of Identity
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,81 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |