Isbn: 9780671477516 - Writing in a State of Siege: Essays on Politics and Literature (20 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. Type: Hardback First American Edition . Hardcover and Dust Jacket in VG Condition. Mylar jacket cover. 256 pages. From South Africa's internationally acclaimed writer, a leading voice of dissent, Andre Brink often had his novels of black hope and white repression suppressed. His nonfiction writings are collected in this volume for the first time-on writers and writing in the world today, Mahatma Gandhi today, culture and apartheid, slaves and masters, intellectuals, against silence, and much more. Very powerful writing. Navy boards with navy half cloth gilt titled; very clean, no markings, a touch of rubbing to bottom edge. Publisher's mark on bottom edge of text block. Internals in fine condition. Jacket not price-clipped, slightly wrinkled around spine head, one-third inch closed tear on upper edge. 1983, Summit Books.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Summit Books, 1983. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with light crease to front fly leaf, otherwise very good. Record # 105968.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 256 p. ; 22 cm. Notes; Collection, of articles, lectures, and speeches. Bibliography: p. 11-12. Subjects; Brink, Andre (Andr Philippus) 1935- Political and social views. Politics and literature South Africa. South Africa Politics and government 1961-1978. South Africa Politics and government 1978-1989. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 256 p. ; 22 cm. Notes; Collection, of articles, lectures, and speeches. Bibliography: p. 11-12. Subjects; Brink, Andre (Andr Philippus) 1935- Political and social views. Politics and literature South Africa. South Africa Politics and government 1961-1978. South Africa Politics and government 1978-1989. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Smaller, sturdy book, dark blue cloth spine, dark blue boards, silver lettering bright on spine, dark blue color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 256 pages. DJ glossy white background, colorful variety of flags on front and spine, prise on back from the Times Literary Supplement, The Observer, New Statesman, and New Society. DJ has tiny tear, nicks and very tiny chips along all bottom edges, thin 1/8" tear near top front tip, two very tiny tears at spine top edge, tiny nick at top back edge. Fair DJ/Fine+ book.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Blue, bi-color boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/VG w/light edge wear & closed tears to lower front edge. Civil responsibilities & literature. 256 pgs. Anthology of 16 essays from South African novelist, playwright and professor of English André Philippus Brink (1935 - 2015) who wrote in both Afrikaans and English. Brink was a key figure in the Afrikaans literary movement known as Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"), a Afrikaans Language Movement. The essays, written between 1967 - 1982, reflect his intellectual engagement with the new range of issues of life in a democratic South Africa, and new, challenging demands on writers concerned with integrity in shaking loose from an instituionalized "white supremacist" world.…

Condition: FINE. First US printing. First book of nonfiction by this internationally acclaimed South African writer. Topics range from apartheid to Mahatma Gandhi, censorship, the position of the Afrikaans writer and more. Fine in a fine dustjacket.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 256 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and minor chipped pieces. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First US edition, first printing. Fine in very good dj with wrinkled top edge and a couple of closed tears. Bookstore sticker removal area on front of dj. 'Walking Man' stamp on bottom edge of text block. A collection of Brink's non-fiction writing. 'A major statement by a major writer on the necessity of speaking out without restraint'. Brink was a major force in South African dissent and has written many novels about black hope and white repression. Author of 'A Dry White Season'. He has a South African jumping spider named for him.…

hardback. Condition: Fine. Essays on Politics and Religion. 1st ed. NY (Summit Books) (1983). Fine in chipped dust wrapper.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1983. Summit Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 067147751x. 256 pages. hardcover. Jacket design Lawrence Ratzkin. Signed by the Author. keywords: Africa South Africa Literature Afrikaans Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - 'There lies a peculiar satisfaction in countering the tactics of secrecy with exposure: the dark fears nothing quite so much as light. This in itself is a justification for writing, and for continuing to write.' - Andre Brink. Andre Brink, South Africa's internationally acclaimed writer, author of such highly praised novels as Looking on Darkness Rumours of Rain, A Dry White Season and A Chain of Voices, has known what it means to have one's very existence threatened. As one of the leading voices in the chorus of dissent in South Africa, he has often had his novels of black hope and white repression suppressed in his native land. Still Brink survives, stays in South Africa, and is a living rebuke to the apartheid policies of that nation. Andre Brink has often been forced, therefore, to confront the issues that appear at the crossroads of literature and politics and has written about them extensively. His nonfiction writings are collected here for the first time. And it is here, too, that Brink addresses himself to the question of his own place - a writer's place in a society that is among the most explosive of the late twentieth century. In selecting essays to be included in this book he found that 'a world where more and more violence is solving fewer and fewer problems makes the writer not less, but more necessary!' Says Brink: 'In the truth embedded in the writer's word lies that ineffable power feared so much by tyrants and tyrannies and other agents of death that they are prepared to stake everything they have against it. For they know only too well that no strategy or system can ever finally resist the word of truth.' Writing in a State of Siege is a major statement by a major writer on the necessity of speaking out without restraint. This remarkable volume includes such essays as 'The Freedom to Publish,' 'The Language of Culture,' 'Censorship and Literature,' and the title essay, 'The Writer in a State of Siege.' Like Andre Brink's novels, Writing in a State of Siege offers the rarest insights into the moral dilemmas of living not only in South Africa but anywhere in the modern world. inventory #15851. Signed by the Author.…

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