“Telling freedom” or “telling the spades back home how to behave”? re-examining Peter Abrahams’s writing in London

Thorpe, Andrea

Title: “Telling freedom” or “telling the spades back home how to behave”? re-examining Peter Abrahams’s writing in London
Creator: Thorpe, Andrea
Date Issued: 2018
Date: 2018
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68412
Identifier: vital:29253
Identifier: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v45i1.3
Description: Publisher version
Description: This article considers the notable dearth of recent scholarship on Peter Abrahams’s writing in the context of his exile and his complex, shifting ideological self-positioning throughout his career. To attempt to address this lacuna in South African literary criticism, and to partially explain why Abrahams has been under-researched, I look at key moments during his early career, including the publication of Dark Testament (1942), Song of the City (1945) and Return to Goli (1953). By focusing on texts by Abrahams that were published during his time in London, I also wish to address the significance of the city in the history of South African literature, and in African anti-colonial and anti-racist thinking more broadly.
Format: 24 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA)
Language: English
Relation: English in Africa
Relation: Thorpe, A. (2018) “Telling Freedom” or “Telling the Spades Back Home How to Behave”? Re-examining Peter Abrahams’s writing in London, English in Africa, 45 (1), 59-82., DOI: 10.4314/eia.v45i1.3
Relation: English in Africa volume 45 number 1 59 82 2018 0376-8902
Rights: Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA)
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the National Library of South Africa Copyright Act

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