{"product_id":"9781041126478","title":"South African Literary Studies A Safundi Reader on Genre, Method, and Ideas, 1999-2024","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSouth African Literary Studies\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Safundi Reader on Genre, Method, and Ideas, 1999-2024\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eChristopher J. Lee | Andrew Offenburger\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Ethnic Studies \/ African Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection delves into crucial themes and debates in South African literature, addressing the innovative aesthetics of Black poetry, the political complexities of \"white writing,\" non-fiction's significance, and the role of geography in South Africa’s regional fiction. It particularly examines how literary works have engaged with the country's evolving post-apartheid identity and its place in global contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouth African Literary Studies: A \u003c\/i\u003eSafundi\u003ci\u003e Reader on Genre, Method, and Ideas, 1999-2024 \u003c\/i\u003emarks the culminating volume in a series celebrating \u003ci\u003eSafundi\u003c\/i\u003e's twenty-fifth anniversary. This comprehensive collection showcases the journal's evolution from its initial focus on US-South African comparative histories to its embrace of a wider range of interdisciplinary and literary studies. Divided into seven sections, this volume explores a diverse set of literary approaches, including transnational comparisons featuring influential figures like Maya Angelou, Alan Paton, Zora Neale Hurston, and Bessie Head. It further addresses the works of poets and novelists who have shaped South African literature, including Lesego Rampolokeng, Keorapetse Kgositsile, and J. M. Coetzee, while also offering illuminating interviews with writers such as Chris Abani, C. A. Davids, and Mark Behr.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough its exploration of various genres, methods, and ideas, this volume retains \u003ci\u003eSafundi\u003c\/i\u003e's founding spirit of examining comparative and transnational connections while also demonstrating how literary criticism has become indispensable in defining South African culture and identity after apartheid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher J. Lee \u003c\/b\u003ehas published eleven books, including \u003ci\u003eMaking a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives\u003c\/i\u003e (2010, rev. 2nd edition 2019), \u003ci\u003eUnreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), \u003ci\u003eFrantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eKwame Anthony Appiah \u003c\/i\u003e(2021), and \u003ci\u003eAlex La Guma: The Exile Years, 1966-1985\u003c\/i\u003e (2024). He is currently the Lead Editor of \u003ci\u003eSafundi\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Offenburger \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of History at Miami University, Oxford, USA. He is author of \u003ci\u003eFrontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917 \u003c\/i\u003e(Yale University Press, 2019) and is co-editor with Patricia Nelson Limerick on the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eTranslating Past to Present: Interpreters in the American West and Beyond \u003c\/i\u003e(University of Nebraska Press). He is the Founding Editor of \u003ci\u003eSafundi\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24 November 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTaylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eRoutledge\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781041126478\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e450\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30.38\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63761844863116,"sku":"9781041126478","price":58.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781041126478","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}