Books and publishing in the South African trade market: changing writers, changing themes.
This article investigates author profiles and writing in South Africa's history, with a special focus on changes that have occurred from the apartheid period to the present day. South Africa has gone through significant change in the past few decades, including major political upheaval. This has had...
| Publicado en: | Critical Arts: A South-North Journal of Cultural & Media Studies Vol. 28; no. 5; pp. 857 - 871 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2014
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=99077529&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 99077529 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 02560046 CTA jtl: Critical Arts: A South-North Journal of Cultural & Media Studies issn: 02560046 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2014 vid: 28 iid: 5 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 99077529 10.1080/02560046.2014.970815 ppf: 857 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 626KB tig: atl: Books and publishing in the South African trade market: changing writers, changing themes. aug: au: Möller, Jana su: Publishing Book industry Readership Literature Imperialism South Africa sug: subj: South Africa Publishing Book industry Readership Literature Imperialism keyword: African languages Afrikaans apartheid author profile book theme English South African literature ab: This article investigates author profiles and writing in South Africa's history, with a special focus on changes that have occurred from the apartheid period to the present day. South Africa has gone through significant change in the past few decades, including major political upheaval. This has had a notable effect on South African writers and the works they produced then, and still produce. These changes have also had an effect on the languages, readers, publishers and book market in South Africa. This author has concluded that South African authors have adapted to their environment and that their writing is representative of this. While English-language books have always had a strong readership market, Afrikaans has surged in popularity, while African languages continue to be poorly represented. Authors from different races and both genders are being published in this country, but the themes of their writings have changed from resistance to reconciliation literature. Today, a greater number of publications on political disaster and crime are appearing, while books detailing South Africa's history remain popular with readers. Authors are also attempting to write ‘lighter’ material, such as romance, adventure and crime fiction. While there are more women writers on the scene than before, there is a paucity of black women writers. In general, though, women writers still lag behind their male counterparts in the popularity stakes. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Critical Arts: A South-North Journal of Cultural & Media Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Critical Arts: A South-North Journal of Cultural & Media Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2014 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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