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South Africa in the Global Imaginary is an award-winning collection of essays about the culture and identity from the perspective of post-apartheid South Africa. When it was first published as a special issue of the prestigious theory journal Poetics Today, the collection was named Best Special Issue of 2001 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, a body affiliated with the Modern Languages Association (MLA). The judges had the following to say about the collection:

‘What finally characterises the best…is a publishing design that…brings together a community of scholars…[and that] realises the potential of a publishing project, as opposed to good topics which did not mature significantly beyond a proceedings collection…Instead of the usual tactic of canonising a national or regional literature, or taking the measure of an existing tradition, this collection sets up a dialectic between South Africa’s impossibly heterogeneous literary tradition, and its position as a literary/cultural symbol in Europe and the First World…Intead of making the job even more impossible, this somehow clarifies the pecliar multidirectional traffic that makes the question of South African culture a matter of global interest.’

Author: Leon de Kock, Louise Bethlehem an dSonja Laden, English, NonArt.

Specifications: Soft Cover, 230x170mm, 284 pages
, ISBN: 978 186 882 601 .

Price (ZA) R100.00

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