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Title:Reading and writing in the new South Africa
Author:Voss, A.E.
Year:1992
Periodical:Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa
Volume:4
Issue:1
Pages:1-9
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:future
literature
Abstract:Three issues seem to be of special importance for the question of how texts and their reception will change in postapartheid South Africa: literacy and education in literacy; the power and prestige of languages other than English; and the role of the establishment press and the alternative press. How South African texts and their reception will change in the postapartheid period will depend on how South Africa will change. Although nationalism and socialism can hardly be anything but controversial, they are live issues. They must have particular meanings in South Africa, which it must be partly the function of literature to define. Postapartheid literature must reorder the 'canon' of South African writing: autobiography and other kinds of testimonial writing will be of special importance, particularly if writing and reading begin to reach new sectors of society. Bibliogr., ref.
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