The literary archives of experience: Richard Rive’s Oxford Library

Asha Rogers

doi:10.1093/camqtly/bfaa015

The literary archives of experience: Richard Rive’s Oxford Library

Asha Rogers

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Abstract

This article responds to the critical impasse between internal and external analysis by considering how the public careers of texts revealed to us by material archives shape literary interpretation. It takes as a case study the anti-apartheid short story ‘The Bench’ by Richard Rive, its adaptations across genres and audiences between South Africa and the United States, and its status in an unusual archive of dedicated first editions bequeathed to Rive’s former Oxford College.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	252–270
Number of pages	19
Journal	The Cambridge Quarterly
Volume	49
Issue number	3
Early online date	30 Jun 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfaa015
Publication status	Published - Sept 2020

Keywords

Richard Rive
South African literature
Archival methods
Close reading
'The Bench'
Adaptation
Black existentialism

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