South African London

Writing the Metropolis After 1948

Andrea Thorpe

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Manchester University Press
01 December 2023

Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

South African London presents a long-ranging and in-depth study of South African writing set in London during the apartheid years and beyond.

Since London served as an important site of South African exile and emigration, particularly during the second half of the twentieth-century, the city shaped the history of South African letters in meaningful and material ways. Being in London allowed South African writers to engage with their own expectations of Englishness, and to rethink their South African identities.

The book presents a range of diverse and fascinating responses by South African writers that provide nuanced perspectives on exile, global racisms and modernity. Writers studied include Peter Abrahams, Dan Jacobson, Noni Jabavu, Todd Matshikiza, Arthur Nortje, Lauretta Ngcobo, J.M.

Coetzee, Justin Cartwright, and Ishtiyaq Shukri. South African London offers an original and multi-faceted take on both London writing and South African twentieth-century literature.

By: Andrea Thorpe
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781526174598
ISBN 10: 1526174596
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Through the “eyes” of London 1 Peter Abrahams and Dan Jacobson: South African liberal humanists in postwar London Detour:“I have always been a Londoner”: Noni Jabavu, an unconventional South African in London 2 Swinging City: Todd Matshikiza’s contrapuntal London writing 3 Waiting and Watching in the city’s pleasure streets: Arthur Nortje’s poems set in London Detour: South African writers and London networks of black British activism 4 Securing the past: Self-reflexive, retrospective narratives of London in J.M. Coetzee’s Youth and Justin Cartwright’s In Every Face I Meet Epilogue: Between the cracks of the city: Transnational Solidarities in Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret Index -- .

Andrea Thorpe teaches academic skills at QA Higher Education, London, and is a research associate of the University of Johannesburg. -- .

Reviews for South African London: Writing the Metropolis After 1948

'In this rich and engaging new study, Andrea Thorpe offers us the perspectives of those for whom London was variously a lens to view the world [...] The book is sharply cognisant of the production of ‘South African’ writing and writers in London and how this was racially structured [...] there is much in Thorpe’s work for scholars of South African history and writing, London and urban histories, exile, modernity, and transnational movements.' Anne Macguire, The London Journal 'Thorpe’s re-evaluation of South African writing as London writing holds political as well as scholarly importance.' Hayley G. Toth, Journal of Postcolonial Writing -- .