'The Eastern Cape is a province of natural beauty, historical interest and tourist potential and it has evoked a wealth of literary responses. This book includes poems and prose extracts from imaginative and personal writings and introduces some 80 writers from different eras and backgrounds. Material is arranged regionally, allowing one to travel by car or in the mind across the varied terrain of the Eastern Cape, learning about cities, towns, coast and countryside, and discovering the light and dark sides of places through writers' eyes. There are maps, and the book is I
'The Eastern Cape is a province of natural beauty, historical interest and tourist potential and it has evoked a wealth of literary responses. This book includes poems and prose extracts from imaginative and personal writings and introduces some 80 writers from different eras and backgrounds. Material is arranged regionally, allowing one to travel by car or in the mind across the varied terrain of the Eastern Cape, learning about cities, towns, coast and countryside, and discovering the light and dark sides of places through writers' eyes. There are maps, and the book is I
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978-1-919930-15-2 (9781919930152)
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Jeanette Eve was born in Pretoria. She has studied and taught English in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Since retiring she has devoted herself to writing and to travelling to various parts of the eastern Cape. She and her husband live in Grahamstown.
Jeanette Eve was born in Pretoria. She has studied and taught English in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Since retiring she has devoted herself to writing and to travelling to various parts of the eastern Cape. She and her husband live in Grahamstown.
1. Passageways and Passing Writers; 2. A Metropole and A Medley Of Writers; 3. Wilderness and Cultivation Through Literary Eyes; 4. A City Of Writers; 5. Writers' Views Of 'Settler Country'; 6. Time, Space and Literary Landscapes; 7. Olive Schreiner's 'Bush World'; 8. Three Stormberg Writers; 9. Four (Or Three) Literary Firsts; 10. The Cradle of Black Writing; 11. A Patchwork of Writings; 12. Layers of Landscape and Literature
