Apartheid and Beyond offers trenchant, historically sensitive readings of writings by Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form. It also explores the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons. Throughout the study, Rita Barnard provides historical context by highlighting key events such as colonial occupation, the creation of black townships, migration, forced removals, the emergence of informal settlements, and the gradual integration of white cities. Apartheid and Beyond is both an innovative account of an important body of politically inflected literature and an imaginative reflection on the socio-spatial aspects of the transition from apartheid to democracy.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
A timely and compelling study. * Contemporary Literature *
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Readers of PMLA, World Literature Today, Comparative Literature, Modernism/Modernity, MLQ; Underground or Grads in taking courses in South African Literature, Post-Colonial Literature
Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-19-979116-3 (9780199791163)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Rita Barnard is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Stellenbosch.
Autor*in
Professor of English and Comparative LiteratureProfessor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania
Introduction ; 1. Dream Topographies ; 2. Leaving the House of the White Race ; 3. Of Trespassers and Trash ; 4. A Man's Scenery ; 5. Beyond the Tyranny of Place ; 6. The Location of Post-Apartheid Culture ; Editions Cited ; Notes ; Index
