Njabulo S. Ndebele's essays on South African literature and culture appeared initially in various publications in the 1980s. They encompass a period of trauma, defiance, and change - the decade of the collapse of apartheid and the challenge of reconstructing a future. In 1991, the essays were collected under the current title of rediscovery of the ordinary - essays on South African literature and Culture. That it is possible to republish the essays without revision so many years after their first appearance is a tribute to Ndebele's prescience. The issues that he raises and the questions that he poses remain key to a people who, after apartheid, have started to rediscover the complex ordinariness of living in a civil society.
- ISBN13 9781869140793
- Publish Date 30 June 2006
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country ZA
- Imprint University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 184
- Language English