Apartheid and Beyond

South African Writers and the Politics of Place
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-979116-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

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.

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnard, Rita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Barnard, Rita
Rita Barnard is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Stellenbosch.