Abstract
Summary Ideology is intricated in South African English poetry and its critical reception in complex ways which demand ongoing examination. In this study I approach the subject along three lines of enquiry. In the first section I trace the development of a materialist critical practice up to the recent challenge it encounters in the work of Michael Chapman. In the second section I attempt to shift this debate onto new ground by reformulating the concept of ideology in post‐modernist terms as a discursive practice rather than, as traditionally conceived, an autonomous body of ideas. In the final section, which forms the bulk of my study, I apply this discursive understanding of ideology to a reading of select poems by English‐speaking white South Africans, from Pringle to Butler.
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