A01=Njabulo S. Ndebele
apartheid
Author_Njabulo S. Ndebele
Category=DS
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
essays
injustice
Product details
- ISBN 9781869140793
- Weight: 259g
- Dimensions: 152 x 209mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2015
- Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
- Publication City/Country: ZA
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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 the 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.
Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele grew up in the Western Native Township, Johannesburg, and later in Charterston Location, Nigel, which provides the setting for his stories. “Fools” and Other Stories won the Noma Award, Africa’s highest literary award for the best book published in Africa in 1984.
His highly influential essays on South Africa literature and culture were published in a collection Rediscovery of the Ordinary. He recently published a novel The Cry of Winnie Mandela to critical acclaim. Ndebele holds an M.A. from Cambridge and a Ph.D. from the University of Denver, and is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town.
