South Africa: A Traveler's Literary Companion -

South Africa: A Traveler's Literary Companion

Isabel Balseiro, Tobias Hecht (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2009
Whereabouts Press (Verlag)
978-1-883513-22-1 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
Features eighteen contemporary short stories that take the reader on a journey through South Africa's literary landscape, exploring Africa's most popular travel destination. This book, divided into three areas of South Africa - Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, and the Western Cape - also includes game parks, farms and even mines.
Including short stories from some of South Africa's best and most renowned writers (Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, and Alan Paton, to name only a few), this collection accompanies readers to a recent, but altogether different South Africa, reflecting perspectives of both the oppressed and the oppressors. Some of the stories are previously unpublished, but all of them constitute examples of the most imaginative and provocative South African writing, from many disparate perspectives.

Isabel Balseiro is the Alexander and Adelaide Hixon Professor of Humanities at Harvey Mudd College, in Claremont, California. Her publications on South Africa include To Change seels: Film and Film Culture in South Africa and the anthology Running Towards Us: New Writing from South Africa. Tobias Hecht is the author of At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil, which won the Margaret Mead Award, and After Life: An Ethnographic Novel. One of his short stories, written in Spanish, won second prize in Spain's Hucha de Oro, which carries the world's largest prize for a single piece of short fiction. An independent scholar, writer, and translator, he received his Ph.D. from Cambridge.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 27.8.2009
Reihe/Serie Traveler's Literary Companions
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort San Francisco
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 184 mm
Gewicht 255 g
Themenwelt Literatur Anthologien
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Reisen Reiseberichte Afrika
ISBN-10 1-883513-22-7 / 1883513227
ISBN-13 978-1-883513-22-1 / 9781883513221
Zustand Neuware
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