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- Title: Expanding 'South Africanness': Debut Novels
- Author : Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 93 KB
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I intend to ask the question of how, in the post-apartheid, post-democratic-elections period in South Africa, specifically the years 1999-2008, obligations and interests have been reconsidered and conclusions which have resulted have found their way into debut novels written and published in this country. After the pause in literary production which followed the fall of the apartheid regime, there has been a flowering of fiction by first-time novelists. South African debut novels which have appeared since 1999, although diverse in their nature, and often related to the ethnic or language group of their authors, demonstrate a general awareness of new freedoms and new developments in South African society, as well as registering disappointment with the new regime. The question has been asked by Derek Attridge and Rosemary Jolly about South African literature, "How does writing by those who were classified as belonging to different racial groups under the apartheid system, by those who speak different languages, by those of different genders and sexualities, differently inflect the peculiar pressures and opportunities with which they were confronted during the past two and a half decades?" (1998: 1). I shall offer a multipart answer to this question and will consider a different time span from that of Attridge and Jolly, whose Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy 1970-1995 (1998) spans the period of mid- to late apartheid and the early years of the post-apartheid era. Rita Barnard's Apartheid and Beyond (2007) goes so far as to consider works of the late 1990s, but follows the custom of most critical works published abroad in focussing on established authors whose works can be easily obtained outside this country.