Storyscapes: South African Perspectives on Literature, Space & Identity

Scholars of Afrikaans and Dutch literature and culture explore personal and cultural identity, and places and landscapes in narratives from South Africa. Among their topics are the work of Karel Schoeman, three farm novels, and the search for cultural specificity between localizing and globalizing tendencies. There is no index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)