Article: "Some alien native land": Arthur Nortje, literary history and the body in exile. (Arthur Nortje, South African poet)(South African Literature in Transition)

Over the past few years in South Africa we have witnessed the emergence of a new nation not only in our first national elections or the forging of the new constitution, but also in the dramatic, tidal return of an exiled and sequestered population. With our border posts now thinly defended, electric fences dormant, and prison doors swinging open, every day brings scenes of jubilant reunion, at airports or docksides, with gaunt refugees returning. Exile is, in many respects, the central problem in South African literary history. In no other country save perhaps 1930s Germany did the state mount such a concerted effort to expel and destroy the most innovative representatives ...

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