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Rediscovery of the Ordinary: Essays on South African Literature and Culture
Rediscovery of the Ordinary Essays on South African Literature and Culture Author:Njabulo Ndebele Njabulo S. Ndebele's essays on South African literature and culture appeared initially in various publications in the 1980s. They encompass a period of trauma, defiance, and change - the decade of the collapse of apartheid and the challenge of reconstructing a future. In 1991, the essays were collected under the current title of rediscovery of t... more »he ordinary - essays on South African literature and Culture. That it is possible to republish the essays without revision so many years after their first appearance is a tribute to Ndebele's prescience. The issues that he raises and the questions that he poses remain key to a people who, after apartheid, have started to rediscover the complex ordinariness of living in a civil society.« less