Contrast: Full Contents of the South African Literary Magazine 1960-1965

This dataset records the contents of the first twelve issues of the South African literary quarterly Contrast, published between 1960 and 1965. During this period, Contrast was edited successively by Jack Cope (1960-61), Philip Segal (1962-64), Jack Cope with Nancy Baines (1964), and then Nancy Baines alone (1965). Contrast was published in Cape Town by South African Literary Journal Ltd. It included texts in both English and Afrikaans. These were chiefly poems, stories and essays, but there were also dramatic pieces, reviews and photo-stories. Alongside these texts, Contrast reproduced works by contemporary South African visual artists. The dataset was compiled from print copies held at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library and in a private collection.