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By Elwyn Jenkins

ISBN-10: 0415976766

ISBN-13: 9780415976763

ISBN-10: 1138833320

ISBN-13: 9781138833326

This is the 1st full-length examine of South African English formative years literature to hide the whole interval of its booklet, from the past due 19th century to the early twenty-first century. Jenkins' publication makes a speciality of what made the following literature primarily South African and what points of the rustic and its society authors focused on. What supplies this booklet specific power is its insurance of literature as much as the Nineteen Sixties, which has previously acquired nearly no scholarly cognizance. not just is that this previous literature a lucrative topic for learn in itself, however it additionally throws mild on next literary advancements. one other remarkable function is that the e-book follows the author’s earlier paintings in putting children’s literature within the context of grownup South African literature and South African cultural background (e.g. cinema). He additionally makes enlightening comparisons with American, Canadian and Australian children’s literature.

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