The experimental line in fiction

Michael Green

doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521199285.039

The experimental line in fiction

Michael Green

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This chapter considers what J. M. Coetzee has called ‘the experimental line’ within the works of black and white writers in English and Afrikaans, showing how, during the apartheid years, its playfulness and experimentalism was often passed over in critical accounts intent on identifying a literature of witness and solidarity. It also traces the continuing ‘line’ of experimentation in post-apartheid literature.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Cambridge History of South African Literature
Editors	David Attwell, Derek Attridge
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	779-799
ISBN (Print)	978-0521199285
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521199285.039
Publication status	Published - Jan 2012

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