Browsing Department of English Studies by Subject "Drum writers"

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The Impact of 1950s Banning of Some South African Writers on Teaching African Literature Today

Rafapa, Lesibana (University of Venda School of Human and Social Sciences, 2007)

This article argues that credit given to South African writers who were exiled during the fifties when banning by the apartheid government was rife, is sometimes premised on inadequate awareness of the contributions of ...
Instances of Bessie Head’s distinctive feminism, womanism and Africanness in her novels

Rafapa, Lesibana; Nengome, A.Z.; Tshamano, H.S. (University of Pretoria, 2011)

Bessie Head was one of the Drum writers of the 1950s. As critics such as Huma Ibrahim have indicated it was only after her death in 1986 that she was included in discussions on the Drum generation. The result of her prior ...
South African Drum Writers of Fiction: The English Language and African Identity

Rafapa, Lesibana (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008)

The peer reviewed book chapter discusses how, in idiosyncratic ways, the various South African writers of the 1950s domesticate their medium of writing through the infusion of Africanist outlook into their fiction.
Tactics of the habitat: the elusive identity of Nat Nakasa

Acott, Heather Margaret (2009-08-25)

In this dissertation on Nat Nakasa I argue, in Chapter 1, that he is one of South Africa's first literary flaneurs. Walking the city as an urban spectator, part journalist, part sociologist, his modernist writings of the ...

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