A representative overview of some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary literary criticism in South Africa, demonstrating literary form's shaping power in the interpretation of politically contentious content.
Rather than pressing literature into the service of a political cause or programme, 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...
A representative overview of some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary literary criticism in South Africa, demonstrating literary form'...
