BOOK HISTORY AND BENEFICIATION

Being part of history themselves, literary histories are structured by forces that can all too easily escape scrutiny. Academic circuits of exchange shape methodologies and modes of representation, and the sense of an audience can be as much a matter of scholarly rigor as of hopeful marketing. In su...

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Published inEnglish studies in Africa Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 21 - 28
Main Author Moran, Shane
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis Group 01.05.2011
Subjects
aesthetics
allegorical
Anglophone
book history
censorship
ideology
imperial
individualism
literary history
marketing
metropolitan
nation
politics
post-colonial
reader response
transnational
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Summary:Being part of history themselves, literary histories are structured by forces that can all too easily escape scrutiny. Academic circuits of exchange shape methodologies and modes of representation, and the sense of an audience can be as much a matter of scholarly rigor as of hopeful marketing. In such a situation blame and defensiveness are as endemic as they are sterile. The following reflection aims to clarify a representation of South African Anglophone literature that remains enveloped by its present.
ISSN:0013-8398
1943-8117
DOI:10.1080/00138398.2011.588376