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

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 ALiterary 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 GordimerandJ.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