- Title
- William Plomer’s Turbott Wolfe: An Anatomy
- Creator
- Cornwell, Gareth D N
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458233
- Identifier
- vital:75725
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-f74f98d81
- Description
- Turbott Wolfe (1925) was indubitably the most controversial South African novel of its day, and – whatever their opinion of its merits – contemporary reviewers were unanimous in recording the excitement, shock or at least discomfort of a revelatory experience.1 Almost a century later, the novel’s stylistic exuberance and formal eccentricity, its grammatica jocosa, seem as fresh as ever. And while we cannot hope to recover an adequate sense of its original iconoclastic impact, historical distance offers us the compensation of perspective: specifically, a perspective in which Turbott Wolfe appears less politically radical than at first supposed, and one that may help us to understand the explosions of recidivist racism that continue to undermine social relations in South Africa, almost a quarter of a century after the advent of democracy.
- Format
- 52 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- English in Africa
- Relation
- Cornwell, G., 2018. William Plomer’s Turbott Wolfe: An Anatomy. English in Africa, 45(1), pp.83-134
- Relation
- English in Africa volume 45 number 1 83 134 2018 0376-8902
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the English in Africa Statement (https://www.ru.ac.za/isea/publications/journals/englishinafrica/)
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Cornwell, David Gareth Napier (Prof Emeritus)
RU Department of Literary Studies in English
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