{"product_id":"rewriting-modernity-david-attwell-9780821417126","title":"Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e connects the black literary archive in South Africa--from the nineteenth-century writing of Tiyo Soga to Zakes Mda in the twenty-first century--to international postcolonial studies via the theory of transculturation, a position adapted from the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Attwell provides a welcome complication of the linear black literary history--literature as a reflection of the process of political emancipation--that is so often presented. He focuses on cultural transactions in a series of key moments and argues that black writers in South Africa have used print culture to map themselves onto modernity as contemporary subjects, to negotiate, counteract, reinvent, and recast their positioning within colonialism, apartheid, and the context of democracy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Attwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821417126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821417126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.02w x 0.57d","brand":"David Attwell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096759902463,"sku":"9780821417126","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rewriting-modernity-david-attwell-9780821417126","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}