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South African Literature

Published on Nov 18, 2015

This is a work I did for school giving details about South African literature, writers and their history, for a presentation about art expressions in English speaking countries

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SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE

BY GABRIELA, JULIA, LUCCA AND VICTOR
2.

IN THE PAST

  • Colonial writers
  • Savages or servants
  • Rider Haggard
  • 1880
3.

OLIVE SCHREINER

  • The Story of an African Farm
  • Authenticity
  • Absence of black people
  • 1883
4.

DOUGLAS BLACKBURN

  • Irony
  • Leaven (1908) and Love Muti (1915)
  • British attitude and blackbirding
5.

SOLOMON THEKISO PLAATJE

  • First black South African writer
  • Mhudi
  • Conflicts between nearby civilizations
  • 1920-1930
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SARAH GERTRUDE MILLIN

  • Between the world wars
  • God's Stepchildren - 1924
  • Tragedy of racial discrimination
7.

NADINE GORDIMER

  • A World of Strangers - 1958
  • The Late Bourgeois World - 1966
  • Burgher's Daughter - 1981
  • July's People - 1981
  • Nobel Prize winner - 1991
  • Apartheid
8.

ANDRE BRINK

  • Looking on Darkness (Kennis van die aand) - 1973
  • A Dry White Season - 1982
  • An Act of Terror - 1991
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BESSIE HEAD

  • When Rain Clouds Gather - 1968
  • Maru - 1971
  • Women and mixed-blood families

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