Lewis Nkosi
Biographic Data
| ID | 227467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lewis Nkosi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lewis |
| FAMILY NAME | Nkosi |
| SIGNATURE | NKOSI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Luster's Lost Quarter
It is ten years since South Africa, emerging out of the darkness of 340 years of colonial conflict, became a new democratic republic. At the swearing in of the new National Assembly in 1994 Desmond Tutu declared: “We are of many cultures, languages, and races have become one nation. We are the rainbow people of God.” Subsequently at his own inauguration President Mandela resorted to the same affective rhetoric: “We enter into a covenant that we s…
The republic of letters after the Mandela republic
Closely linked to the emergence of modernity, the nation has functioned for literature (and for the novel in particular) as a virtual space, a discursive formation and a mental structure in relation to individual histories and narratives. Thus the nation has served as a reservoir that writers can draw on to fashion stories of the nation. The essay examines the failure of South Africa to function as a unitary nation through specific moments in its…
Writing South Africa
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's rel…
Sole and the symptoms of nervous breakdown
White writing
The Essential Gesture: writing, politics and places. Nadine Gordimer, London: Jonathan Cape. 1988. 356pp. £15.00hb White Writing: on the culture of letters in South Africa. J M Coetzee, New Haven, Connecticut/London: Yale University Press. 1988. 193pp. £14.95hb
Home and Exile and Other Selections
Africa ReportPublished monthly by the African-American Institute, Washington. 60 cents
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Africa ReportPublished monthly by the African-American Institute, Washington. 60 cents
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Home and Exile and Other Selections
White writing
The Essential Gesture: writing, politics and places. Nadine Gordimer, London: Jonathan Cape. 1988. 356pp. £15.00hb White Writing: on the culture of letters in South Africa. J M Coetzee, New Haven, Connecticut/London: Yale University Press. 1988. 193pp. £14.95hb
Sole and the symptoms of nervous breakdown
Writing South Africa
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's rel…
The republic of letters after the Mandela republic
Closely linked to the emergence of modernity, the nation has functioned for literature (and for the novel in particular) as a virtual space, a discursive formation and a mental structure in relation to individual histories and narratives. Thus the nation has served as a reservoir that writers can draw on to fashion stories of the nation. The essay examines the failure of South Africa to function as a unitary nation through specific moments in its…
Luster's Lost Quarter
It is ten years since South Africa, emerging out of the darkness of 340 years of colonial conflict, became a new democratic republic. At the swearing in of the new National Assembly in 1994 Desmond Tutu declared: “We are of many cultures, languages, and races have become one nation. We are the rainbow people of God.” Subsequently at his own inauguration President Mandela resorted to the same affective rhetoric: “We enter into a covenant that we s…
History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Democracy (2 works)