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- W2085508957 abstract "With the capitulation of the apartheid government in the Republic of South Africa in February 1990, inevitably for the Southern African region as a whole would begin a process of stocktaking in the subcontinent's literature. Here are three fresh works that embark in various ways on this challenging enterprise of redefining the past, find? ing a reformulated future. The drag on the region's progress has been removed, leaving much damage; now we must recover, move forward. The first of these works is the least successful in assessing this ter? ritory, although the title of Emmanuel Ngara's collection is quite explicit: from Southern Africa. Correcdy speaking, apart from South Africa itself, this includes what used to be called the front-line states of the Southern African Development Coordinating Conference: its neighboring territories of Botswana, Swaziland, and Lesotho; its fifth province for most of the century, now independent Namibia; the inland block of Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi (in all of which English is a major language); together with the flanking Portuguese-speaking countries of Angola and Mozambique. Ngara hardly tries to be representative: 87 of his pages are devoted to the giant, now-free South Africa where he currendy lives and teaches; 59 to his home-country of Zimbabwe?which, indeed, since its independence in 1980 has developed a convincing literary output; and 15 pages to vital and accomplished Malawi, also recentiy democratic. Namibia is referred to only twice; none of the other countries qualifies for a mention. One would have thought the greatest contemporary practitioners of new writing in Southern Africa, Jose Craveirinha, Pepetela and Mia Couto, would have become tangled into the footnotes at least, but apparendy their language has ruled them out. Admittedly Ngara's subtitle is Authors Who Have Become Prominent since 1980, but even Bessie Head (d. 1986), who really put Botswana on the map, is omitted." @default.
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- W2085508957 title "Opening Southern African Studies Post-Apartheid" @default.
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