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Novel Histories
Past, Present and Future in South African Fiction

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Novel Histories
Past, Present and Future in South African Fiction

by Michael Green (Author)

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ISBN: 9781868143139

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This text is less a survey of the uses of history in modern South African fiction than a detailed claim for a kind of historical understanding which may emerge from fiction in the light of late-20th-century theory relating to both history and fiction.

ISBN	1868143139
ISBN13	9781868143139
Publisher	Wits University Press
Format	Paperback
Publication date	31/12/1997
Pages	344
Weight (grammes)	260.00
Published in	South Africa
Height (mm)	220
Width (mm)	150

Historical fiction and resistant form. Part 1 Uses of the past: history, nation, and form, Sol T. Plaatje
rewriting history and nation, Peter Abrahams
the changing past, Oliver Walker
the present in the past, Sarah Gertrude Millin
romancing the past, Daphne Rooke. Part 2 The present as history: the historian as detective. Part 3 The future as history: future histories. Conclusion: resisting a national literary history.