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Article: Transformation through art: writing, representation, and subjectivity in recent South African fiction.(South African Literature in Transition)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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Given the history of racist and capitalist exploitation in South Africa, considerably more writing has been produced by white writers than by black.(2) Even when black writers in English began to flourish in the 1950s and 1960s, only two were women: Noni Jabavu and Bessie Head. Both had left the country. Jabavu produced two autobiographical accounts, Drawn in Colour (1960) and The Ochre People (1963), about her return visits to South Africa, and Bessie Head made a literary career for herself in Botswana. Within South Africa, the only black South African woman to publish fiction in English in the 1970s was Miriam Tlali, whose Muriel at Metropolitan appeared in 1975, although ...