The Short Story in South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Short Story in South Africa write by Rebecca Fasselt. This book was released on 2022-03-25. The Short Story in South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has undergone a significant renaissance, with new collections and young writers making a significant impact on the contemporary literary scene, and subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction and queer fiction expanding rapidly in popularity. This book examines the role of the short story genre in reflecting or championing new developments in South African writing and the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. Drawing together a range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews and personal reflective pieces, the volume traces some of the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities in the genre and sheds new light on questions of literary form. Finally, the book considers the place of the short story in twenty-first century writing and interrogates the ways in which the short story form may contribute to, or recast ideas of, the post-apartheid or post-transitional. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.
Feast, Famine and Potluck
Feast, Famine and Potluck - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feast, Famine and Potluck write by Karen Jennings. This book was released on 2014-06-14. Feast, Famine and Potluck available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A dazzling collection from across the African continent and diaspora here SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA has assembled the best nineteen stories from their 2013 competition. Food is at the centre of stories from authors emerging and established, blending the secular, the supernatural, the old and the new in a spectacular celebration of short fiction. Civil wars, evictions, vacations, feasts and romances the stories we bring to our tables that bring us together and tear us apart.
Omnibus of a Century of South African Short Stories
Omnibus of a Century of South African Short Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Omnibus of a Century of South African Short Stories write by Michael J. F. Chapman. This book was released on 2007. Omnibus of a Century of South African Short Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Omnibus of a Century of South African Short Stories makes available all the stories from three best-selling anthologies: A Century of South African Short Stories (1978); the revised edition (1993); and The New Century of South African Short Stories (2004)
Dinaane
Dinaane - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dinaane write by Maggie Davey. This book was released on 2013-03-01. Dinaane available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The African writer, Yvonne Vera, used to recall that, as a young girl in the cotton fields, the urge to write was so strong that with no pen and paper available she picked up a twig and started to scratch words onto her skin. Stories in South Africa kept the dream of freedom alive during the colonial and apartheid years; and the tradition of the people and elders of a village meeting under the shade of a tree is based on telling stories as a way of arriving at an understanding. This rich tradition is brought to life here, by women who write of and from the landscape and its people. Part of a series showcasing contemporary women writers from around the world.
The Jack Bank
The Jack Bank - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jack Bank write by Glen Retief. This book was released on 2011-04-12. The Jack Bank available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An extraordinary, literary memoir from a gay white South African, coming of age at the end of apartheid in the late 1970s. Glen Retief's childhood was at once recognizably ordinary--and brutally unusual. Raised in the middle of a game preserve where his father worked, Retief's warm nuclear family was a preserve of its own, against chaotic forces just outside its borders: a childhood friend whose uncle led a death squad, while his cultured grandfather quoted Shakespeare at barbecues and abused Glen's sister in an antique-filled, tobacco-scented living room. But it was when Retief was sent to boarding school that he was truly exposed to human cruelty and frailty. When the prefects were caught torturing younger boys, they invented "the jack bank," where underclassmen could save beatings, earn interest on their deposits, and draw on them later to atone for their supposed infractions. Retief writes movingly of the complicated emotions and politics in this punitive all-male world, and of how he navigated them, even as he began to realize that his sexuality was different than his peers'.
