Contains the keyword Africa Civilization 20th century Congresses.

2002281176(OCoLC)ocm49702303Sue Kossew and Dianne Schwerdt, editors.24 cm.Includes bibliographical references and index.A selection of papers presented at the Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, held in Perth November 1999.Ch. 1. Introduction / Sue Kossew and Dianne Schwerdt -- Ch. 2. A century of Conrad's Heart of darkness / Peter Mwikisa -- Ch. 3. Monstering the interior: internal journeys over external landscapes / Dianne Schwerdt -- Ch. 4. Dictating currents and the questioning of tyranny in Africa: an intertextual study of Fémi Osófisan's Yungba-Yungba and the dance contest / Solá Adéyemi -- Ch. 5. Between ancestries and amarapurs: immigrant asianness in M.G. Vassanji's fiction / Dan Odhiambo Ojwang -- Ch. 6. Social suffering and the politics of pain: observations on the concentration camps in the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 / Jenny de Reuck -- Ch. 7. "Voices from the past": the depiction of the Khoisan in contemporary Afrikaans historical novels / Luc Renders -- Ch. 8. "A white fly on the sombre windowpane": the construction of Africa and identity in Breyten Breytenbach's poetry / Louise Viljoen -- Ch. 9. "Something terrible happened": Nadine Gordimer's The house gun and the politics of violence and recovery in post-Apartheid South Africa / Sue Kossew -- Ch. 10. Intertextuality in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's The ambiguous adventure: multiple readings of death / Elias K. Bongmba -- Ch. 11. Sins of the father? Thematic concerns in South African homosexual writing / Paul C. Woods -- Ch. 12. Elephants and the ethics of ecological criticism: a case study in recent South African fiction / Dan Wylie -- Ch. 13. South Africa's language policy: controlled status enhancement and reduction / William W. Bostock -- Ch. 14. African-language publishing and book promotion in South Africa, 1994-2000: some developments and ironies / Phaswane Mpe.