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Published by (Cape Town: David Philip, 1983 First Edition) 0908396929, 1983
ISBN 10: 0908396929ISBN 13: 9780908396924
Seller: Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Association Member: IOBA
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8vo; original brown boards; dustwrapper; pp. xvi + 233; frontispiece portrait. Very good condition. "Nineteen essays on southern African literature have been contributed by contemporary critics in Canada, America, England, Australia and South Africa; there are also two poems written specially for Guy Butler by David Wright and Douglas Livingstone, a dedication by Athol Fugard, and a select bibliography of Guy Butler's publications. Part One focuses on Olive Schreiner. The essays on her life and work represent a wide range of interest: historical, biographical, sociological, and political, as well as literary. Two of South Africa's leading writers, Nadine Gordimer and Alan Paton, have contributed their responses to the challenge Schreiner made to them as future writers. Part Two has a variety of essays on southern African literature after Schreiner, on such diverse topics as 'Dickens and the Zulus', 'A Poem about Revolution', and 'The Lyric Poetry of Guy Butler'.