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Very Good. Size: 8x5x0; Yale University Press; New Haven, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. A Very Good, crimson color cloth binding with silver lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, mild rubbing to board and spine edges, handwritten ink initials and year top front free endpaper else unmarked, trace handling marks, very mild spine lean, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, bit of edge/corner wear, few small tears along edges, mild spine fade, some sunning to flaps, Mylar protected, Dust wrapper. A nice and clean copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches], 193pp., works cited, indexed. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
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New Haven. 1988. April 1988. Yale University Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0300039743. 204 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature South Africa Literary Criticism. FROM THE PUBLISHER-J. M. Coetzee, one of the most distinguished novelists of our time, offers here his first book-length work of criticism. In seven vigorous essays, Coetzee discusses the literary genres and works of major white authors from his homeland of South Africa in the years before World War II. Describing the early narratives of exploration and travel. the melancholy pastoral novels, the landscape poetry obsessed with barrenness and emptiness, he paints a picture of a developing literature trying uneasily to appropriate through the imagination a corner of Africa for the white man. Coetzee explores a wide range of works in both English and Afrikaans, including writing from defenders of racism (Sarah Gertrude Millin) and a conservative-agrarian order (Pauline Smith and C. M. van den Heever), and from critics of the reigning dispensation (Olive Schreiner and Alan Paton). White writing of this period, he suggests, has as its goal the creation of a mythology to underpin colonial occupation of a resistant land. It characterizes native South Africans as primitive in their thought patterns, idle in their behavior. It depicts South Africa as a prehistoric, empty landscape on which lie dotted the farms of white pioneers, models of heroic independence. Coetzee's analyses, enriched by cross-cultural comparisons between South African responses to issues of the day and the responses of Europeans and Americans, illuminate not only the literature of white South Africans but essential elements of their character as well. ‘Superbly intelligent, clear, learned, wide-ranging, sophisticated essays that in combination become one of the best books I know of on South African literature. '-Lars Engle, Yale University. inventory #10567.
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Fine copy in fine dust jacket: just 2 closed nicks to rear bottom edge, else bright w/o any fading. 8vo 8 1/2"x 5 1/2" red cloth printed red & white; silver spine lettering; 193 pgs w/ index; red dust jacket (unpriced but pub at $19.95) w/ author photo by Morris Zwi on back cover. quote by Lars Engle on rear flap.
