Author: Oboe, Annalisa.
Title: Fiction, History and Nation Building in South Africa.
Description: Supernova. Venezia 1994. Limited edition of 1000 unnumbered copies only. no isbn apparent. 220pp softcover. 8vo. Wraps a bit creased, gift inscription, ff tanned, a Good clean copy. Warm gift inscription from author to "Sandra". This work investigates South African historical novels as foundational narratives that mediate between history and story in order to conjure up the myth of the modern nation. By exploring the rhetoric of plot patterns and the semantics of recurrent motifs, the book discusses the ways in which texts produce a literary discourse about the past which aims at forming or consolidating a national consciousness. Author was a researcher in the Department of English and German Languages and Literatures at the University of Padova.

Keywords: fiction history south southern africa african literary


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