Andrea Thorpe, South African London. Writing the Metropolis after 1948

First published in 2021, Andrea Thorpe’s South African London examines the way in which the former imperial metropole is represented in literary works by South African writers. The introduction clearly presents Thorpe’s objectives : first, her book is meant as a complement to studies such as John M...

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Crynodeb:First published in 2021, Andrea Thorpe’s South African London examines the way in which the former imperial metropole is represented in literary works by South African writers. The introduction clearly presents Thorpe’s objectives : first, her book is meant as a complement to studies such as John McLeod’s Postcolonial London (2004) or John Clement Ball’s Imagining London : Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis (2004), which do not rely on a specific (former) colony but interr...