On Literary Attachment in South Africa : Tough Love (Hardcover)

Introduction 1. Andre Brink, Mevrou Sadie, and Me our crooked-line stories 2. Bushman Letters/Bushman Literature usable and unusable pasts 3. Schreiner’s Karoo, Blackburn’s Jo’burg a literary journey, then and now 4. A School Person in a Red Blanket the case of S.E.K. Mqhayi 5. Lewis Nkosi ambiguities of home and exile 6. The Potential and Limitations of Symptomatic Criticism Ruth Miller’s poetry 7. Who Wins a Nobel Prize? Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee 8. Who Doesn’t Win a Nobel Prize? Gordimer, Coetzee, Bosman, Head 9. The Power of … Nelson Mandela: a literary consideration 10. The Science of Poetry and the Poetry of Science Douglas Livingstone’s uncommon humanity 11. To Be a Coconut Kopano Matlwa to the Bard of Avon 12. #RhodesMustFall! on literary attachment and the rupturing event