Buy this book on-line van Wyk Smith, M : Grounds of Contest. A Survey of South African English Literature(Cape Town: Juta, 1990)
210 x 137 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (vi) + iii + (iii) + 153, incl. index; photographic portraits in text. Earlier owner's name signed, with date, on title page. Near fine condition. Uncommon overview of South African English literature. "Grounds of Contest is the first attempt since Manfred Nathan's South African Literature: A General Survey in 1925 to produce a general groundplan of South African writing in English. Taking the dialectics of appropriation and renunciation of the land itself as both the ruling theme and metaphor of this body of literature, Malvern van Wyk Smith sketches the development of a set of South African voices from the earliest European visitors right up to a contemporary literature of emergency and resistance." Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of van Wyk Smith, M : Grounds of Contest. A Survey of South African English Literature. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, livres illustrées, first editions, livres rares and rare books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |