This book constitutes a thorough examination of the discipline of English Studies in South Africa in the period 1958-2004. The Foucauldian typology of procedures determining discursive production is systematically applied to demonstrate the existence of such procedures and to provide empirical evidence to subvert the contention that the discipline is unruly and its choice of objects random. During the period under review, South African imaginative written artefacts have moved from a marginal position to the centre of focus of the discipline. In addition, the common conception of what...

This appendix provides the results of the detailed analyses underpinning the study "ENGLISH ACADEMIC LITERARY DISCOURSE IN SOUTH AFRICA 1958-2004: A REVIEW OF 11 ACADEMIC JOURNALS." Each journal is reviewed individually and comparatively. Static and chronological statistical analyses were undertaken in order to provide empirical evidence to support the findings. The cumulative results describe the major shifts primarily in ranges of disciplinary objects, but also in metadiscursive and thematic debates.

Puts into context Dylan's disappearance from the public view in the late 1960s and his re-emergence for the Before the Flood tour.