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© in This Web Service Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19928-5 - The Cambridge History of South African Literature Edited By David Attwell and Derek Attridge Index More information Index Abrahams, Lionel, 371, 478, 537, 592, 829 1948–94 literatures, 609–20: language Abrahams, Peter boards, 611; publishers, 610–11; Bantu World, 334 readership, 610; themes, 611–18 Dark City, 334 debate, 327, 421–2 Drum magazine and, 399 English and, 588 exile, 381, 410 literary criticism, 1910–48, 825–6 historical novels, 297, 305 modernity and, 327 influence, 334–5, 511 New African Movement, 325–37 language, 753 official languages, 2, 607 Mine Boy, 305, 334, 437, 482 post-1948 writing, 607–28 ‘Negro Youth’, 510–11 post-apartheid writing, 619–27: key figures, New African Movement, 333 625–7; response to liberation, 620–5; publishers, 707, 708, 710 translations, 625 racial classification, 432 publishing, 804–7: mission presses, 204–23, Return to Egoli, 334 293, 804 ‘Self ’, 511–12 transcription, 182, 204, 205–8, 327–8 Song of the City, 305 translations into, 293–4, 625, 746–7: Tell Freedom, 334, 410 autobiographies, 717 Wild Conquest, 242, 300, 334, 397 African Literature Association, 420–1 Abrahams, Yvette, 152 African National Congress (ANC) Achebe, Chinua, 305, 412, 415, 618, 801 1994 triumph, 384, 619 Act of Union (1910), 184, 218, 222, 223, 287, 291, apartheid period, 289 361, 476 ban, 552 Adamastor Christianity and, 570 African figure, 120–1 Cultural Desk, 645, 781 Afrikaans theme, 132–4 Drum magazine and, 395 Camoes,˜ 114, 117, 119 fictional support, 383 Campbell, 121, 123, 124, 344 Inkatha conflict, 647, 731 demise, 131–2 non-violent resistance, 382 early versions, 121–4 origins, 184, 222, 304, 812 post-Campbell versions, 126–31 periodicals, 824 Rabelais, 120 post-Sharpeville, 382 translations, 120–1 prison and, 554 Adams, H. C., 228, 231, 233, 234, 236, 239 prisoner release, 634 Adams, Willie, 457 unbanning, 453, 647 Adamson, James, 818, 819 African National Congress Youth League, African languages 289, 335, 350, 393 See also specific languages African National Convention, 184 nineteenth-century newspapers, 222–3 African National Theatre, 570 838 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19928-5 - The Cambridge History of South African Literature Edited By David Attwell and Derek Attridge Index More information Index African Writers’ Association, 478, 533, 644, translations, 746, 750–2 812 women poets, 434–5 African Writers Series, 708–9, 800, 806, women writers, 459–62 811 Afrikaanse Skrywersgilde, 454, 827 Afrika, Tatamkulu Afrikaner Bond, 213, 273 Bitter Eden, 725 AIDS, 385, 468, 492, 578, 620, 623–4, 627, 652, Innocents, The, 725 666, 682–3, 685, 691, 702, 730, 732, 774–5 Mr Chameleon, 724–5 Ainslie, Ros, 709 poetry, 593 Ainsworth, Harrison, 821 Afrikaans language Alexander, Peter, 368, 370 See also Afrikaans literature All African Convention (AAC), 303–4 1976 protest, 446 All African Languages Redevelopment Bible, 271, 272, 279 Institute of Southern Africa, 625 Eastern Border Afrikaans, 264 Altick, Richard, 801 English and, 588 Altman, Phyllis origins, 262–5 innocence, 392 recognition, 133 Jewish writer, 390 teaching language in black schools, 446, Law of the Vultures, The, 483, 706 552 publishers, 710 Afrikaans Language Monument, 262, 280 short stories, 390 Afrikaans Language Movement (First) Alvarez-Pereyre, Jacques, 831 Bible in Afrikaans, 271, 272, 279 amahubo, 89–90, 108 ‘Bushmen’s Letters’ and, 35 Amato, Rob, 571 literary production, 272–3 American Board Mission, 214, 218, 219 periodicals, 821 Amin, Idi, 580 Afrikaans Language Movement (Second), 824 ANC. See African National Congress Afrikaans literature Anderson, Benedict, 205, 249, 788 1652–1806 (Dutch period), 266–8 Anderson, Maxwell, 700 1806–75 (British hegemony), 269–80 Anderson, P. R., 36 Adamastor theme, 132–4 Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), 133, 184, 228–9, apartheid period, 384: 1948–76, 429; 246–60, 316, 340, 362–3, 372, 374, 464–5, 1976–90, 453–63; literary criticism, 827–8 697 autobiography, 725–9, 732–3 Anglo-Zulu Wars, 183, 228, 294 border literature, 458–9 Angola, 536, 634 Dertigers, 308–15, 316, 828 Anthing, Louis, 21 early poetry, 151 anthologies experimentalism, 792–4 nineteenth century poetry, 27, 31, 187–8, folklore, 28 819 gay and lesbian literature, 462–3 Afrikaans poetry, 308, 429–30, 457, 470 historical writing, 464–7 Black Consciousness, 502, 512 interregnum, 643–4 black cultural history, 813 literary criticism: 1910–48, 824–5; apartheid Black Mamba Rising (1986), 92, 534, 537 period, 827–8 ‘Bushmen’s Letters’ and, 32–4 national identity and poetry, 589 early Afrikaans poetry, 270, 275–6 origins, 182, 262–80 izibongo, 84–5 plaasroman, 315–22 Land Apart, A, 330 post-apartheid, 463–70, 688–91 lyric poetry, 588 publishing, 429, 454, 457, 467, 807–10, 814 oral literature, 42–3 realism, 436–8 prison poetry, 553 renaissance, 258 protest poetry, 526, 534 resistance, 453–63 |Xam literature, 32–4 Sestigers, 309, 315, 316, 383, 435, 438–46, 728, Xhosa poetry, 208, 278, 294, 303, 821 754, 792, 828 Anthony, Frank, 553 839 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19928-5 - The Cambridge History of South African Literature Edited By David Attwell and Derek Attridge Index More information Index anthropology, 85, 115, 159, 164–7, 172, 176, 232, influence, 462 294, 488, 821 regional literature, 318, 442 anti-Semitism, 341, 390 Sestiger, 441, 442 Anti-Slavery Society, 186 Sestiger contributions, 439 Antonissen, Rob significance, 385 Afrikaans literary history, 429 Auden, W. H., 597 on Cachet, 274 AUETSA, 831 on du Toit, 279 Austen, Jane, 195 early Afrikaans literature, 269, 277 Austin, Alfred, 249 on Grevenbroek, 267 autobiography. See memoirs and diaries literary criticism, 824, 828 Autsumao, Chief, 144–5 literary periods, 309 Ayliff, John, 193 origins of Afrikaans, 263 AZASO, 528 on van Riebeeck, 266 apartheid period Baartman, Sarah, 662, 771 See also post-apartheid period; resistance Bacon, Francis, 171, 330 African language literatures, 611–18 Baden-Powell, Robert, 227, 251, 257 demise, 633–49 Baderoon, Gabeba, 773–4 exile writing, 410–25 Bailey, Brett, 580 historical significance, 5 Bailey, Jim, 394, 395, 396 language policies, 607–8 Bain, Andrew Geddes, 187–8, 269–70 legislation, 382, 411 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 550 literary criticism, 826–32 Bakkes, Margaret, 268 origins, 289 Ballantyne, R. M. overview of period, 381–4 on Afrikaners, 233 political poetry and standards, 537–8 British-Afrikaner intermarriage, 236 prison writing, 545–61 on Bushmen, 238 publishing of black writers and, 403–5 class, 231 repression of poetry, 527–9 colonialism and sexuality, 234 rethinking poetry, 524–7 on criminality, 233 speaking places, 535–6 criticism of Governor Somerset, 230 van Wyk Louw and, 354–5 heroes, 233 women writers, 761–70 Settler and the Savage, The, 227, 233 Appadurai, Arjun, 698, 711 Bambatha Rebellion (1906), 229, 303, 341, 617 Aranda song cycles, 32 Bank, Andrew, 29, 174 Arendt, Hannah, 230, 232 Bannister, Saxe, 191 Ariosto, Ludovico, 120 Banoobhai, Shabbir, 502 Aristotle, 117 Bantu Education Act (1953), 382, 396, 412, 607, Armah, Ayi Kweyi, 653 610 Aron, Geraldine, 571 Bantu World, 332–3, 335, 396 Artists and Writers’ Guild, 478 Baptist, R. Hernekin (Ethelreda Lewis), 710 Ashton, William, 220 Baraka, Amiri, 419 Association of True Afrikaners (GRA), 182, Barker, Derek Alan, 790 262, 266, 272–7 Barnard, Anne, 158, 171, 174, 460, 769 Astbury, Brian, 571 Barnard, Chris, 439, 441–2, 567 Asvat, Farouk, 502, 537 Barnard, Rita, 536, 681, 711 Atkinson, William, 117 Barnett, Clive, 703 Attenborough, Richard, 704 Barnett, Ursula, 831 Attridge, Derek, 782, 783, 792–3 Barris, Ken, 666, 790 Attwell, David, 475, 639, 782, 784–5, 787 Barrow, John Aucamp, Hennie background, 158 cabaret, 457 colonial critique, 168, 171 diaries, 469, 721 critical debate, 173, 174 840 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19928-5 - The Cambridge History of South African Literature Edited By David Attwell and Derek Attridge Index More information Index Lichtenstein rivalry, 149 BLAC, 812, 815 travel narrative, 26 Black Consciousness view of Africans, 167 emergence, 383 Barter, Catherine, 718 feminism and, 772 Barthes, Roland, 643 legacy, 644 Basutoland Gun War (1880–1), 294 liberalism and, 477, 479 Basutoland. See Lesotho poetry, 500–20, 524–7 Bataille, Georges, 689 prison and, 552, 554 Batavia, 138, 145 realism, 389 Batavian Republic, 115, 148 traditional culture and, 90 Baudrillard, Jean, 453 Black Dog (play), 572 Bechler, W. F., 209 Black Mamba Rising (1986), 92, 534, 537 Bechuanaland. See Botswana Black Orpheus, 400, 404, 412, 709 Becker, Jillian, 487 Black, Stephen, 373, 824 Beckett, Samuel, 441, 573, 723 Blackburn, Douglas Behr, Mark, 659, 661, 665, 721 Boer character, 361–3, 366, 377 Beier, Ulli, 709 Burgher Quixote, A, 249, 362–3 Beinart, William, 173 career, 361 Bell, David, 786 Leaven, 361, 481 Benigna van Groenekloof of Mamre, 149, 209–10, literary oblivion, 360, 373 272 ‘Open Letter to a Prominent Krugersdorp Benjamin, Karel, 720 Jingo’, 361 Benjamin, S. P., 467 overview, 361–3 Benjamin, Walter, 301, 304, 641, 794 Prinsloo of Prinsloosdorp, 361–2, 363–7 Bennett, Arnold, 364 Blacks Resettlement Act (1954), 413 Benson, Mary, 709 Bleek, Dorothea, 21, 32 Bentham, Jeremy, 546, 550, 557 Bleek, Wilhelm Bergh, Olof, 143 Bushmen and settlers, 354 Bernanos, Georges, 568 on Bushmen’s imagination, 822 Bernstein, Hilda, 720, 721 ‘Bushmen’s Letters’. See ‘Bushmen’s Bernstein, Rusty, 656, 720 Letters’ Bertrand, Jean, 159 Reynard the Fox in South Africa, 28 Besselaar, Gerrit, 824 transcriptions, 16 Beukes, Gerhard, 566, 828 Blignaut, Aegidius Jean, 372–3, 824 Beukes, Lauren, 691 Bloem, T., 152 Beverley, Robert Mackenzie (‘Justus’), 191 Blomerus, Marie,´ 829 Bhabha, Homi, 742 Bloom, Harold (SA) Bhengu, M.
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