Lexington Books
Pages: 348
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-4807-5 • Hardback • May 2011 • $150.00 • (£115.00)
978-0-7391-6695-6 • eBook • July 2012 • $142.50 • (£110.00)
Vicki Briault Manus is a senior lecturer at the University of Stendhal Grenoble 3.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Chapter I: A Period of Optimism (1795-1910): Literacy as the Path to Equality
Chapter 3 Chapter II: Disillusionment Sets In (1910-1948): Black Englishmen and Urban Natives: First Signs of Indigenization
Chapter 4 Chapter III: Under Control (1948-1960): Tsotsis, Tough-talking Journalists from the Urban Ghetto and the Post-Creole Continuum
Chapter 5 Chapter IV: Dislocation (1960-1976): Colored or Creole? Writing 'Between Two Fires' in the Sixties
Chapter 6 Chapter V: Deadlock (1976-1990): The Old is Dying and the New Cannot be Born
Chapter 7 Chapter VI: Breakthrough (1990 and after): Multiple Identities and "Emerging Traditions"
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Briault's comprehensive study of the socio-linguistics of black South African writing, firmly grounded in historical and political change, is nothing short of groundbreaking. Innovative and well-written, it traces stylistic devices through insightful discussions of African orature, indigenization, and creolization of European languages. Illuminating, and a pleasure to read.
— Zoë Wicomb, Emeritus Professor, University of Strathclyde
Manus's linguistically attentive study is a valuable reminder to literary critics not only to return to the language of the text, but also to take seriously the practice of translation—including, crucially, same-language translation—in a culture of daunting and challenging heterogeneity.
— Research in African Literatures