Contributor
Scanlon, Paul A. editor.
Imprint:Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, 2000.
Description1 online resource.
Note:Peter Abrahams (1919- ) -- Herman Charles Bosman (1905-1951) -- Breyten Breytenbach (1939- ) -- Andre Brink (1939- ) -- Dennis Brutus (1924- ) -- Guy Butler (1918- ) -- Roy Campbell (1901-1957) -- Sydney Clouts (1926-1982) -- J.M. Coetzee (1940- ) -- H.I.E. Dhlomo (1903-1956) -- Ahmed Essop (1931- ) -- Athol Fugard (1932- ) -- Nadine Gordimer (1923- ) -- Bessie Head (1937-1986) -- Christopher Hope (1944- ) -- Dan Jacobson (1929- ) -- Alex La Guma (1925-1985) 00 Douglas Livingstone (1932-1996) -- Zakes Mda (1948- ) -- Sarah Gertrude Millin (1888-1968) -- Thomas Mofolo (1876-1848) -- Es'kia (Ezeiel) Mphahlele (1919- ) -- Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali (1940- ) -- Njabulo S. Ndebele (1948- ) -- Lewis Nkosi (1936- ) -- Arthur Nortje (1942-1970) -- Alan Paton (1903-1988) -- Sol T. Plaatje (1876-1932) -- William Plomer (1903-- 1973) -- Thomas Pringle (1789-1834) -- Richard Rive (1931-1989) -- Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) -- Sipho Sepamla (1932- ) -- Mongane Wally Serote (1944- ) -- Pauline Smith (1882-1959) -- Miriam Tlali (1933- ) -- Zoe Wicomb (1948-).
Note:Essays on South African writers from the South African War or Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) to the Act of Union in 1910, when the defeated Boer republics were joined together by British Parliament into what became modern South Africa. Discusses the beginnings of South Africa literature in English, as well as the impact the discovery of gold and diamonds had. Genres mentioned include travel books, hunter-adventure romances, and South African realist fiction.
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