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Abstract
This paper takes as premise Stanley Frielick's generally accepted point that much publishing in South Africa today is 'part of the process of historical rediscovery and re-visioning that informs contemporary South African studies', so that 'through exploring the dynamic connections between past and present, we can gain a clearer picture of the forces that are shaping our future'.1 I would add to this one of the satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys's throwaway lines: The future is known in South Africa; only the past is unpredictable? The position of that elusive specimen - the South African writer- is perhaps best summarised in part by Nadine Gordimer in 1982 in her paper, 'Living in the Interregnum',3 first delivered to the New York Institute of the Humanities
Recommended Citation
Gray, Stephen, An Author's Agenda: Re-visioning Past and Present for a Future South Africa, Kunapipi, 13(1), 1991.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol13/iss1/6
