Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-lj6df Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-05T10:36:55.068Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A History of South African Literature; Christopher Heywood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 310pp. ISBN: 0521554853. £45.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Sheila Boniface Davies
Sheila Boniface Davies*
Affiliation:
St John's College, Cambridge
Get access

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Book Reviews
Information
African Research and Documentation , Volume 100 , 2006 , pp. 62 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © International African Institute 2006

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Notes

1 The Zulu king has slammed the Ya Mampela slogan for being slang and not “proper Zulu”, and its use has been describes as “dangerous as it kills authentic African languages” (“Zulu king gets TV slogan trashed” http://www.filmmaker.co.za, 15 July 2005). Some Xhosa traditional leaders tried to have Chris Mann's play, Thuthula, withdrawn from the Grahamstown Festival because they believed it portrayed their history negatively (Ncedo Kumbaca ‘King, chiefs to meet to discuss Xhosa love play', Dispatch 5 June 2003), and Heywood's book has elicited passionate and damning reviews by John Karmemeyer and Ampie Coetzee for its alleged mis-representation of Afrikaans literature. Coetzee goes as far as saying that the book will contribute to the demise of the Afrikaans language and accuses the publisher of perpetuating a new and atrocious (“gruwelike“) strain of colonisation. Kannemeyer calls on CUP to halt distribution and to destroy all remaining stock. See Kannemeyer, ‘Literere lappieskombers, pretensieuse politieke prul’ Die Burger, 5 February 2005, plO and Coetzee & Malan, ‘Anargistiese Afrikaans nie ‘n SA sportspan', Die Burger, 12 February 2005, pl5.

2 Nkosi, Lewis, ‘Luster's Lost Quarter’, Journal ofPostcolonial Writing, 41:2,2005Google Scholar; and Smith, Malvern van Wyk, ‘White writing/Writing Black: The Anxiety of Non-Influence’ in Smit, J. A., Wyk, J. van and Wade, J.. Eds. Rethinking South African Literary History (Durban: Y Press, 1996).Google Scholar

3 Ibid.

4 Koyane, Siphokazi . Ed. Sindiwe Magona: The First Decade (University of Natal Press, 2004).Google Scholar

5 LitNet, 17 February 2005.