Representing Dissension : Riot, Rebellion and Resistance in the South African English Novel, by J.A. Kearney : book review

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Extracted from text ... Representing Dissension: Riot, Rebellion and Resistance in the South African English Novel. By J. A. KEARNEY. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 2003. xxviii + 340 pp. ISBN 1 86888 204 7. Like other forms of academic inquiry, in the post-apartheid era South African literary criticism has enjoyed probably one of its most intellectually vibrant periods. The number of literary texts that have attracted the interest of critics has expanded to include many works, by both black and white writers, that in the past would have received only passing attention. J.A. Kearney's Representing Dissension is an example of such recent ..