Best known as the author of such works as King Solomon's Mines and She, H. Rider Haggard was one of the most popular writers of the late-Victorian era, and his works continue to be influential today. To a large degree, his novels are captivating because of his image of Africa, and an understanding of his representation of the African landscape is central to a critical reading of his works. This book argues that Haggard created in his African romances a formulaic, ideological geography which provided a canvas onto which he projected his desires and fears, both personal and political, as well as those of his age.
The first full-length study of land and landscape in Haggard's African romances, this book approaches his construction of an imaginary African landscape as a product of late-Victorian wishful thinking about Africa, analyzing his African topography as a vast Eden, a wilderness, a dream underworld, a home to ancient white civilizations, and a sexualized metaphor for the human body. While the work looks primarily at his pre-1892 romances, which were his most powerful, it also gives attention to his nonfiction and unpublished papers. Because Haggard's writings embodied the spirit of his age, this book is an essential guide to late-Victorian concepts of Africa, colonization, and the British Empire.

Imagining Africa: Landscape in H. Rider Haggard's African Romances (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)

Literature & Fiction

Stiebel, Lindy

British & Irish

Praeger

This volume presents documents that roughly follow the chronology of Joseph Conrad's life and deliberately considers two documents that reveal surprising and important facts that Conrad had carefully concealed.

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 1: Joseph Conrad, Henry Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling by their Contemporaries

Pite, Ralph

Hubbard, Tom

Carabine, Keith

History & Criticism

Routledge

This book looks at Rider Haggard from a different standpoint, his own. It carries a selection of critical appraisals of Haggard's work by his contemporaries up until the early 1950s.

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 2: Joseph Conrad, Henry Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling by their Contemporaries

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VII, Volume 3: Joseph Conrad, Henry Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling by their Contemporaries

Lewis Nkosi is one of South Africa’s foremost writers and critics, and one of the few survivors of the exile generation dating from the Drum era. Up until now, however, no full length study has been done on his work. This is a gap in South African literary history and criticism that this book is intended to fill. Besides his well known earlier works, Nkosi is still very much an active writer as the publication in 2002 of his novel, Underground People, shows, with his latest novel due out in 2005. The timing of Still Beating the Drum, a book which intends to highlight and evaluate his extensive and varied oeuvre, is thus appropriate. Given Lewis Nkosi’s life trajectory, this volume will appeal to readers interested in South African and African literature, both in South Africa and abroad. Intended as a important critical resource on Lewis Nkosi, the book is divided into three parts: Part One collects papers from scholars around the world currently working on Nkosi’s work in various genres; Part Two reprints key articles from different moments in Nkosi’s critical writing, together with hitherto unpublished recent interviews with Nkosi; and Part Three provides the reader with a timeline and extensive bibliography for Lewis Nkosi, both invaluable resources for scholars working on Nkosi given the scattered nature of much of his more ephemeral  writings in the past. Lewis Nkosi is an important figure in South African literature whose voice has been heard far and wide – this book aims to collect for critical consideration some of the echoes and reverberations his voice has generated.   Contents Acknowledgements  Illustrations  Preface Liz GUNNER and Lindy STIEBEL: Introduction: Lewis Nkosi – Inscriptions PART ONE: WRITING ON LEWIS NKOSI THE LITERARY CRITIC Annie GAGIANO: Lewis Nkosi as Literary Critic Chris WANJALA: Lewis Nkosi’s Early Literary Criticism Oyekan OWOMOYELA: Lewis Nkosi: A Commentary Piece THE DRAMATIST AND POET Liz GUNNER: Contaminations: BBC Radio and the Black Artist – Lewis Nkosi’s “The Trial” and “We Can’t All be Martin Luther King” Sikhumbuzo MNGADI: Hostage Drama: The Rhythm of Violence and Some Comments on “The Black Psychiatrist” Astrid STARCK-ADLER: Psycholoanalysis and Apartheid: The Image and Role of the Psychiatrist in Selected Works of Lewis Nkosi Therese STEFFEN: The Desire of Knowledge, or, the Body in Excess: Lewis Nkosi’s Play “The Black Psychiatrist” Litzi LOMBARDOZZI: An Introduction to the Poetry of Lewis Nkosi THE NOVELIST Lucy GRAHAM: “Bathing Area – For Whites Only”: Reading Prohibitive Signs and ‘Black Peril’ in Lewis Nkosi’s Mating Birds Lindy STIEBEL: The Return of the Native: Lewis Nkosi’s Mating Birds Revisited in Post-Apartheid Durban Companion Piece: South African Censors’ Report on Mating Birds Andries OLIPHANT: Mammon and God: Reality, Imagination and Irony in Underground People Raffaella VANCINI: Beyond the Literature of Protest: Lewis Nkosi’s Underground People PART TWO: LEWIS NKOSI IN HIS OWN VOICE INTERVIEWS 14.1 Interview with Lewis Nkosi 25 October 2002, Durban, South Africa conducted by ZOË MOLVER, filmed by DAVID BASCKIN 14.2 Nuruddin Farah and Lewis Nkosi in conversation with ACHILLE MBEMBE at the Time of The Writer Festival, Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre in Durban, South Africa on 15 March 2003 Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu–Natal  A RETROSPECTIVE SELECTION 15.1 Fiction by Black South Africans 15.2 Alex La Guma: The Man and His Work 15.3 Negritude: New and Old Perspectives  15.4 White Writing 15.5 Bloke Modisane: Blame Me On History 15.6 The Republic of Letters After the Mandela Republic PART THREE: SOURCES FOR LEWIS NKOSI 16 Bibliography 17 Timeline Notes on Contributors Index

Still Beating the Drum Critical Perspecives on Lewis Nkosi

Brill Academic Pub

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