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African Tragedy is the unknown first version of Wulf Sachs's famous psychobiography Black Hamlet, presented here as an enthralling novel. The text has languished in the colonial archive, virtually unknown, since 1946. This is the story of the Manyikan nganga, John Chawafambira, as the author originally conceived it, a tale of psychic and political struggle in the inhospitable environment of industrialising Johannesburg in the 1930s. Digest this 'new' version and the earlier ones, Black Hamlet (1937) and Black Anger (1947), can never be read as once they were.

About the Author :
Laurence Wright is an Extraordinary Professor in the Languages and Literature Research Unit at North-West University, South Africa. Formerly H.A. Molteno Professor of English and Director of the Institute for the Study of English in Africa at Rhodes University, South Africa, he is a Rhodes Scholar and a Commonwealth Scholar, and a member of the South African Academy of Science. He is Honorary Life President of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa. He has published widely on writers such as Sol Plaatje, VS Naipaul, Edgar Allan Poe, RL Peteni, Joseph Conrad, Guy Butler, JM Coetzee, Tom Sharpe, Somerset Maugham, and on the history of Shakespeare in South Africa. He has also written on the future of the humanities in South Africa, on South African language policy, and on the Eastern Cape education crisis.

Review :
'African Tragedy is the original literary manuscript of Black Hamlet, and its successor, Black Anger. Laurence Wright's impeccable scholarship radically revises these influential texts of South African psychoanalysis, Manyika traditional medicine, urban sociology, Jewish intellectual history and African political biography. […] His groundbreaking research on African Tragedy offers a field-defining provocation in African Studies.'Dr Brendon NichollsDirector, Leeds University, Centre for African Studies, UK


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781036418618
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Novel by Wulf Sachs
  • ISBN-10: 1036418618
  • Publisher Date: 25 Mar 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 212 mm
  • No of Pages: 331
  • Width: 148 mm


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