Apartheid Narratives

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-420-1506-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Reihe: DQR Studies in Literature

In an engaging and dynamic collection of essays on South African writing, an international cast of contributors pay detailed attention to the shifting parameters of scholarly debates on apartheid and the apartheid era.
Investigating a range of literary and critical perspectives on a period that shaped the literature of South Africa for much of the twentieth century, the contributors offer a rich survey. The volume focuses on internationally acclaimed writers (Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee) as well as those writers who are yet to receive sustained critical attention (Mtutuzeli Matshoba, Alex La Guma, Bessie Head, Ahmed Essop, Ronnie Govender).
“Apartheid Narratives” will be welcomed by academics and students of South African writing as a stimulating collection which maps the literary terrain of apartheid.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Yousaf, Nahem

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Nahem YOUSAF: Apartheid Narratives
David SCHALKWYK: Chronotopes of the Self in the Writings of Women Political Prisoners in South Africa
Nahem YOUSAF: On the Edge of Existence: Alex La Guma’s And a Threefold Cord
Kelwyn SOLE: Political Fiction, Representation and the Canon: The Case of Mtutuzeli Matshoba
Vasu REDDY: History and Memory: Writing by Indian Authors
Judie NEWMAN: Jump Starts: Nadine Gordimer After Apartheid
Craig MACKENZIE: Bessie Head’s South Africa
Mike MARAIS: Disarming Silence: Ethical Resistance in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe
Gina WISKER: “A Gesture of Belonging”: Creativity and Place in South African Women’s Writing
Desiree LEWIS: Constructing Lives: Black South African Women and Biography Under Apartheid
Sue MARAIS: Discontinuity-in-Relationship: Apartheid in the South African Short Fiction Cycle
Notes on Contributors
Index