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WRITING IN A STATE OF SIEGE : Essays on Politics and Literature
by Andre Philippus Brink
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- ISBN 10
- 067147751X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671477516
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New York, NY: Summit Books/Simon & Schuster, 1983. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. New/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Blue, bi-color boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/VG w/light edge wear & closed tears to lower front edge. Civil responsibilities & literature. 256 pgs. Anthology of 16 essays from South African novelist, playwright and professor of English André Philippus Brink (1935 - 2015) who wrote in both Afrikaans and English. Brink was a key figure in the Afrikaans literary movement known as Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"), a Afrikaans Language Movement. The essays, written between 1967 - 1982, reflect his intellectual engagement with the new range of issues of life in a democratic South Africa, and new, challenging demands on writers concerned with integrity in shaking loose from an instituionalized "white supremacist" world.
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- Title
- WRITING IN A STATE OF SIEGE : Essays on Politics and Literature
- Author
- Andre Philippus Brink
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 067147751X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671477516
- Publisher
- Summit Books/Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1983
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- Anthology/Essays/Autobiography/Memoir/South Africa/Politics/Government/Apartheid/Die Sestigers
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