A morbid fascination : white prose and politics in apartheid South Africa / Richard Peck.

• 1. The Morbid Fascination with Politics in South African Prose -- 2. Beware the Gaboon Adder: Wilbur Smith's Purple Prose and Propaganda --?3. The Mystery of McClure's Trekkersburg Mysteries: Text and Nonreception in South Africa -- 4. More Mysteries against Apartheid: Bosman, Ebersohn, and Drummond -- 5. Progressively Antipolitical: Recent Antiapartheid Best-Sellers --?6. The Liberal Tradition in South African Writings: Alan Paton and Laurens van der Post -- 7. Undermining the Liberal Tradition: Dan Jacobson, Phyllis Altman, and Mary Benson -- 8. Condemned to Choose, But What? Existentialism in South African Writing in English -- 9. Nadine Gordimer's Morbid Fascination with Politics --?10. The Play of Politics in South African Theater --?11. Conclusion.

Ämnesord

Race relations in literature  (LCSH)

Apartheid in literature  (LCSH)

Blacks in literature  (LCSH)

Race in literature  (LCSH)

South African fiction (English)  -- White authors -- History and criticism (LCSH)

Political fiction, South African (English)  -- History and criticism (LCSH)

Politics and literature  -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century (LCSH)

South Africa  -- Politics and government -- 20th century (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Gep Litteraturhistoria: afrikansk: engelskspråkig

Kpeaa Historia: Sydafrikanska republiken

Klassifikation

823 (DDC)

823 (DDC)

Gep (kssb/6)

Kpeaa (kssb/6)