Reading Affect In Post Apartheid Literature

Author : Mark Libin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030559779

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Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature by Mark Libin Pdf

This book examines South Africa’s post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the socio-political project of the “new” South Africa, best exemplified in their Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings, was fundamentally an affective, emotional project. Through the TRC hearings, which publicly broadcast the testimonies of both victims and perpetrators of gross human rights violations, the African National Congress government of South Africa, represented by Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, endeavoured to generate powerful emotions of contrition and sympathy in order to build an empathetic bond between white and black citizens, a bond referred to frequently by Tutu in terms of the African philosophy of interconnection: ubuntu. This book explores the representations of affect, and the challenges of generating ubuntu, through close readings of a variety of cultural products: novels, poetry, memoir, drama, documentary film and audio anthology.

Author : Danyela Dimakatso Demir,Olivier Moreillon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003815396

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Tracing the (Post)Apartheid Novel beyond 2000 by Danyela Dimakatso Demir,Olivier Moreillon Pdf

This anthology comprises of interviews with contemporary South African authors, offering vignettes of their lives and summaries of their works. In curating this book, Danyela Demir and Olivier Moreillon step beyond pure literary theory and analysis. They welcome the authors to speak and assess the literary panorama in which they live and co-create. However, Demir and Moreillon also trace concepts and terms that describe the current South African literature, such as post-transitional literature and literature beyond 2000. By adopting a world-literary approach to (post)apartheid literature, this book contributes to debates on contemporary South African writing. In addition, Tracing the (Post)Apartheid Novel Beyond 2000 seeks to raise awareness of the imbalance in both critical and public attention between literary ‘big names’, such as André P. Brink, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Zakes Mda, who are popular worldwide, and the younger and newer generation of South African writers, who go largely unnoticed. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.

Author : Sue Kossew
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484757

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Pen and Power by Sue Kossew Pdf

Author : Maria-Luiza Caraivan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443867528

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Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Maria-Luiza Caraivan Pdf

Nadine Gordimer and the Rhetoric of Otherness in Post-Apartheid South Africa observes and examines several issues that are central to the South African writer’s works: the uniqueness of terror in a difficult historical period, the desire to annihilate racial oppression, and, above all, the psychological alienation provoked by racism. The analysis also focuses on literary topics that are specific to Gordimer’s post-Apartheid writings, such as the significance of multiculturalism, the status of writers, the banalisation of violence due to mass-media coverage, the reconciliation with a violent past, globalization and loss of cultural and national identity, economic exile, and migration. The book proposes in five chapters a journey into Nadine Gordimer’s novels, short stories and non-fiction that presents the reader with a multifaceted Other who is no longer specific to postcolonial and multicultural South Africa but can be identified across the globe as alterity is redefined by globalization.

Author : Olivier Moreillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3832548300

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Reading the Post-Apartheid City by Olivier Moreillon Pdf

This study analyses the representation of Durbanite and Capetonian urban spaces in the following selection of post-apartheid works: Mariam Akabor's "Flat 9", Rozena Maart's "Rosa's District Six", Johan van Wyk's "Man Bitch", K. Sello Duiker's "Thirteen Cents", Bridget McNulty's "Strange Nervous Laughter", and Lauren Beukes' "Moxyland". The focus lies on the interrelatedness of shifting post-apartheid subjectivities and urban space (and place) in these literary works. The analysis not only grants access to different 'new voices` of post-apartheid literature, it also sheds light on the perception of South African history, urban geography, and cultural topography - essentially, on real as well as imagined South African urban spaces - as the literary representations of city-spaces become archives of cultural transformation processes; a gateway to the understanding of the developments and changes of, and within, the two cities in question.

Author : Jane Poyner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030419370

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The Worlding of the South African Novel by Jane Poyner Pdf

The Worlding of the South African Novel develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transition from apartheid to democracy, little in South Africa’s socio-economic reality has actually changed. Poyner discusses how the contemporary South African novel engages with this reality. In forms of literary experiment, the novels open up intellectual spaces shaping or contesting the idea of the “new South Africa”. The mediatising of truth at the TRC hearings, how best to deal with a spectacular yet covert past, the shaping for “unimagined communities” of an inclusive public sphere, HIV/AIDS as the preeminent site testing capitalist modernity, white anxieties about land reform, disease as environmental injustice and the fostering of an enabling restorative cultural memory: Poyner argues that through these key nodes of intellectual thought, the novels speak to recent debates on world-literature to register the “shock” of an uneven modernity produced by a capitalist world economy.

Author : Graham K. Riach
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781835533932

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The Short Story after Apartheid by Graham K. Riach Pdf

The Short Story after Apartheid offers the first major study of the anglophone short story in South Africa since apartheid’s end. By focusing on the short story this book complicates models of South African literature dominated by the novel and contributes to a much-needed generic and formalist turn in postcolonial studies. Literary texts are sites of productive struggle between formal and extra-formal concerns, and these brief, fragmentary, elliptical, formally innovative stories offer perspectives that reframe or revise important concerns of post-apartheid literature: the aesthetics of engaged writing, the politics of the past, class and race, the legacies of violence, and the struggle over the land. Through an analysis of key texts from the period by Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes, this book assesses the place of the short story in post-apartheid writing and develops a fuller model of how artworks allow and disallow forms of social thought.

Author : Rita Barnard,Andrew van der Vlies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350086890

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South African Writing in Transition by Rita Barnard,Andrew van der Vlies Pdf

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book asks the question: how has contemporary South African literature grappled with ideas of time and history during the political transition away from apartheid? Reading the work of major South African writers such as J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Ivan Vladislavic as well as contemporary crime fiction, South African Writing in Transition explores how concerns about time and temporality have shaped literary form across the country's literary culture. Establishing new connections between leading literary voices and lesser known works, the book explores themes of truth and reconciliation, disappointment and betrayal.

Author : Danyela Demir,Olivier Moreillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1032632240

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Tracing the Post(apartheid) Novel Beyond 2000 by Danyela Demir,Olivier Moreillon Pdf

This anthology comprises of interviews with contemporary South African authors, offering vignettes of their lives and summaries of their works. In curating this book, Danyela Demir and Olivier Moreillon step beyond pure literary theory and analysis. They welcome the authors to speak and assess the literary panorama in which they live and co-create. However, Demir and Moreillon also trace concepts and terms that describe the current South African literature, such as post-transitional literature and literature beyond 2000. By adopting a world-literary approach to (post)apartheid literature, this book contributes to debates on contemporary South African writing. In addition, Tracing the (Post)Apartheid Novel Beyond 2000 seeks to raise awareness of the imbalance in both critical and public attention between literary big names', such as Andr P. Brink, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Zakes Mda, who are popular worldwide, and the younger and newer generation of South African writers, who go largely unnoticed. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.

Author : John T. Friedman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857450913

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Imagining the Post-Apartheid State by John T. Friedman Pdf

In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State. By elucidating the State through a focus on the social, historical and cultural processes that help constitute it, this study helps chart new territory for anthropology, and it contributes an ethnographic perspective to a wider set of interdisciplinary debates on the State and state processes.

Author : Rita Barnard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199791163

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Apartheid and Beyond by Rita Barnard Pdf

Apartheid and Beyond explores a wide range of South African writings to demonstrate 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.

Author : Achmat Dangor
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015043009136

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Kafka's Curse by Achmat Dangor Pdf

His unforgiving brother, a post-apartheid politician, tries to come to terms with Oscar's apostasy but will himself betray both his principles and his family when he falls in love with Amina, a beautiful and spirited psychotherapist.

Author : Derek Attridge,Rosemary Jolly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521597684

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Writing South Africa by Derek Attridge,Rosemary Jolly Pdf

During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's relation to politics and ethics. Writing South Africa offers a window on the literary activity of this extraordinary period that conveys its range (going well beyond a handful of world-renowned names) and its significance for anyone interested in the impact of decolonisation and democratisation on the cultural sphere. It brings together for the first time discussions by some of the most distinguished South African novelists, poets, and dramatists, with those of leading commentators based in South Africa, Britain and North America.

Author : Louise Bethlehem
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004491366

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Skin Tight by Louise Bethlehem Pdf

Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Culture and its Aftermath traces the responses to the emergent paradigm of South African literary studies from the 1970s onwards. Embedded in the influential critical texts of the field, it claims, are hidden narratives - of land, race, gender, desire and embodiment. This volume explores these submerged dimension's of South African literary history and the influence they continue to exert well into the post-apartheid era. It suggests that significant continuities exist between late-apartheid and post-apartheid literary culture, and positions these against the interpretive horizon of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Author : Gerald Gaylard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000854091

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At Home with Ivan Vladislavić by Gerald Gaylard Pdf

At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have positive ecological effects as we tend to protect what we know. The flaneur’s deep word hoard also helped him to develop a minimalist style, which was not only a means of living sustainably in the city, but in its humour and close attention to detail a way to make greening the city more of a joy than a duty. In this way, Vladislavić created a culture of sustainability. Introduction and Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.