Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-420-3638-3
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 157, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts. The essays assembled here analyse the crossing and negotiation of borders and boundaries in works by Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Winterbach, Deneys Reitz, Janet Suzman, Marlene van Niekerk, A.S. Byatt, Thomas Harris, Frank A. Jenssen, Eben Venter, Antjie Krog, and others under different signs or conceptual points of attraction. These signs include a spiritual turn, eventfulness, self-understanding, ethnic and linguistic mobilization, performative chronotopes, the grotesque, the carceral, the rhetorical, and the interstitial.

Contributors: Ileana Dimitriu, Heilna du Plooy, John Gouws, Anne Heith, Lida Krüger, Susan Meyer, Adéle Nel, Ellen Rees, Johan Schimanski, Tony Ullyatt, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Viljoen, Hein

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Introduction
Ileana Dimitriu: Representing the Unpresentable: Between the Secular and the Spiritual in Gordimer’s Post-Apartheid Fiction
Heilna du Plooy: Narrative Dynamics and Boundaries: The Undermining of Event and Eventfulness in The Book of Happenstance by Ingrid Winterbach
John Gouws: Deneys Reitz and the Bounds of Self-Understanding
Anne Heith: Challenging and Negotiating National Borders: Sámi and Tornedalian AlterNative Literary History
Lida Krüger: The Visual Representation of the Boundary Between Past and Present: Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Suzman’s The Free State
Susan Meyer: Earth as Home: Nature and Refuges/Living Spaces in Some Afrikaans Narratives
Adéle Nel: Borders and Abjection in Triomf
Ellen Rees: Body, Corpus, and Corpse: Delineating Henrik Ibsen in A.S. Byatt’s The Biographer’s Tale
Johan Schimanski: Pronouncing it the Porder: Ascribing Aesthetic Values to External and Internal National Borders in Frank A. Jenssen’s The Salt Bin
Tony Ullyatt: The Normal and the Carceral: Boundaries in Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs
Phil van Schalkwyk: The Aid of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of AIDS: Eben Venter’s Ek stamel ek sterwe
Hein Viljoen: Navigating the Interstitial: Boundaries in Lady Anne by Antjie Krog
Notes on the Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Hein Viljoen is professor of Afrikaans and Dutch Literature and Literary Theory at the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus in South Africa. His research interests include Afrikaans poetry, literary theory, and literary and cultural hybridity. With Chris N. van der Merwe he edited Storyscapes (2004) and Beyond the Threshold (2007). He is also editor-in-chief of Literator, a journal for national and comparative literature and linguistics (www.literator.org.za).