`Some alien native land': Arthur Nortje, literary history, and the body in exile.

Examines South African literary history in the 1960s and exiles' literary situations through the works of exiled South African poet Arthur Kenneth Nortje. Birth, education, career, exile and death of Nortje; Nortje's struggle to produce usable imaginative landscapes that compensate for the experience of dislocation and political isolation; Comments on Nortje's literary works.