Emerging Traditions: Toward a Postcolonial Stylistics of Black South African Fiction in English

It could be the effect, however, of multiple differences. No single African language has been codified as official; Afrikaans retains an educational and a commercial infrastructure; creolized speech varieties have their base in English or Afrikaans while English is the language of an African-majority government.

Recognizing while regretting the increasing dominance of English, Manus chooses case studies in which English remains the base from which both hybridized speech patterns and African cultural references are communicated to the reader. Manus's argument is caught at time in its own dilemma.

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It wishes to "localize" South African literature: Yet, it also wishes to enter the local into the global via the category of the postcolonial: Where to in such a dilemma? Wherever, Manus's linguistically attentive study is a valuable reminder to literary critics not only to return to the language of the text, but also to take seriously the practice of translation-including, crucially, same-language translation-in a culture of daunting and challenging heterogeneity.

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Description Details Customer Reviews The monograph explores the linguistic impact of the colonial and postcolonial situations in South Africa on language policy, on literary production and especially on the stylistics of fiction by indigenous South Africans writing in English. A secondary concern is to investigate the present place of English in the multilingual spectrum of South African languages and to see how this worldly English relates to Global English, in the South African context.

The introduction presents a socio-linguistic overview of South Africa from pre-historic times until the present, including language planning policies during and after the colonial era and a cursory review of how the difficulties encountered in implementing the Language Plan, provided for by the new South African constitution, impinge on the development of black South African English.

Six chapters track the course of English in South Africa since the arrival of the British in , considered from the point of view of the indigenous African population. The E-mail Address es you entered is are not in a valid format. Please re-enter recipient e-mail address es. You may send this item to up to five recipients. The name field is required.

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