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Article: Ten South African Poets. (South Africa).
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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Ten South African Poets Adam Schwartzman, ed. Manchester, England. Carcanet (Paul & Co., distr.) 1999. ix + 226 pages. 12.95/$25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 1-85754-393-9
IT IS SAID that when it was quite clear that the dominance of apartheid policies in South African life was ending for good, writers like Nadine Gordimer and Athol Fugard remarked that they would have nothing to write about. They were joking, of course, and since then they have both produced works which demonstrate that their oeuvre is not simply one of polemics. Still, the joke was not entirely farcical. The truth behind it is that very little about South African life -- sports, religion, literature, ...