Hill of Fools: notes towards a publishing history

Title: Hill of Fools: notes towards a publishing history
Creator: Wright, Laurence
Date: 2004
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: vital:7037
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007373
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC47868
Description: preprint
Description: Written in English in the early 70s, Hill of Fools was projected into the market for world literature among distinguished company in the Heinemann African Writers Series (HAWS), at a time when expectations for African writing in English reflected a certain orthodoxy; when the book’s origins in apartheid South Africa pressed certain ‘buttons’ in world readerships, and when the country’s increasing cultural isolation meant that even relatively well-versed literary Africanists were less than familiar with the milieu from which the story springs. The result has been that the novel acquired a rather odd penumbra of interpretation, ranging from the naïve to the dismissive or reductive.
Format: 13 pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: English in Africa, Wright, L.S. (2004) Hill of Fools: notes towards a publishing history. English in Africa, 31 (2). pp. 43-54, English in Africa volume 31 number 2 43 54 Oct 2004 type="issn">0376-8902
Rights: Wright, Laurence
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