The Short Story After Apartheid

Author : Graham K. Riach
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000054275

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Reflecting Apartheid by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nadine Gordimer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408832639

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Jump and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer Pdf

In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing civil war in Mozambique; a black activist's deserted wife longing for better times; a rich safari party indulging themselves while lionesses circle their lodge. Jump is a vivid, disturbing and rewarding portrait of life in South Africa under apartheid.

Author : Danyela Dimakatso Demir,Olivier Moreillon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Maria-Luiza Caraivan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Nadine Gordimer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780747562757

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My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer Pdf

This is a passionate love story; love between a man and two women, between father and son, and something even more demanding- a love of freedom.

Author : Denis Hirson,Martin Trump
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0435906720

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The Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories by Denis Hirson,Martin Trump Pdf

All by writers who spent their formative years in South Africa, this diverse range of short stories spans from the end of World War II when the National Party was on the upsurge, to the early 1990s when the legal framework of apartheid was abolished, the ANC was legalized and Mandela was released.

Author : Rebecca Fasselt,Corinne Sandwith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000562408

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The Short Story in South Africa by Rebecca Fasselt,Corinne Sandwith Pdf

This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has undergone a significant renaissance, with new collections and young writers making a significant impact on the contemporary literary scene, and subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction and queer fiction expanding rapidly in popularity. This book examines the role of the short story genre in reflecting or championing new developments in South African writing and the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. Drawing together a range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews and personal reflective pieces, the volume traces some of the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities in the genre and sheds new light on questions of literary form. Finally, the book considers the place of the short story in twenty-first century writing and interrogates the ways in which the short story form may contribute to, or recast ideas of, the post-apartheid or post-transitional. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.

Author : Nadine Gordimer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429967600

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Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black by Nadine Gordimer Pdf

"You're not responsible for your ancestry, are you . . . But if that's so, why have marched under banned slogans, got yourself beaten up by the police, arrested a couple of times; plastered walls with subversive posters . . . The past is valid only in relation to whether the present recognizes it." In this collection of new stories, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black, Nadine Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love with the fearless insight that is the hallmark of her writing. In the title story a middle-aged academic who had been an anti-apartheid activist embarks on an unadmitted pursuit of the possibilities for his own racial identity in his great-grandfather's fortune-hunting interlude of living rough on diamond diggings in South Africa, his young wife far away in London. "Dreaming of the Dead" conjures up a lunch in a New York Chinese restaurant where Susan Sontag and Edward Said return in surprising new avatars as guests in the dream of a loving friend. The historian in "History" is a parrot who confronts people with the scandalizing voice reproduction of quarrels and clandestine love-talk on which it has eavesdropped. "Alternative Endings" considers the way writers make arbitrary choices in how to end stories—and offers three, each relating the same situation, but with a different resolution, arrived at by the three senses: sight, sound, and smell.

Author : Nadine Gordimer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408830307

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No Time Like the Present by Nadine Gordimer Pdf

Nadine Gordimer is one of our most telling contemporary writers. With each new work, she attacks - with a clear-eyed lack of sentimentality, and an understanding of the darkest depths of the human soul - the inextricable link between personal life and political, communal history. The revelation of this theme in each new work, not only in her homeland South Africa, but the twenty-first century world, is evidence of her literary genius: in the sharpness of her psychological insights, the stark beauty of her language, the complexity of her characters and the difficult choices with which they are faced.In No Time Like the Present, Gordimer brings the reader into the lives of Steven Reed and Jabulile Gumede, a 'mixed' couple, both of whom have been combatants in the struggle for freedom against apartheid. Once clandestine lovers under racist law forbidding sexual relations between white and black, they are now in the new South Africa. The place and time where freedom - the 'better life for all' that was fought for and promised - is being created but also challenged by political and racial tensions, while the hangover of moral ambiguities and the vast and growing gap between affluence and mass poverty, continue to haunt the present. No freedom from personal involvement in these or in the personal intimacy of love.The subject is contemporary, but Gordimer's treatment is timeless. In No Time Like the Present, she shows herself once again a master novelist, at the height of her prodigious powers.

Author : Beverley Naidoo
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141928258

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Out of Bounds by Beverley Naidoo Pdf

A collection of short stories - four previously published and three new - linked by the theme of young people experiencing personal dilemmas. All are set in South Africa, first under apartheid and then after the first democratic elections. They cover the period from 1950 to 2000 and reflect the lives of a range of young people, black and white, living in what was for many years seen as the world's most openly racist society.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410354648

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A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer's "Once Upon a Time" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Nadine Gordimer's "Once Upon a Time," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Gareth Cornwell,Dirk Klopper,Craig MacKenzie
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231130462

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The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945 by Gareth Cornwell,Dirk Klopper,Craig MacKenzie Pdf

From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid. Because apartheid intruded on every aspect of private and public life, South African literature was preoccupied with the politics of race and social engineering. Since the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990, South Africa has been a new nation-in-the-making, inspired by a nonracial idealism yet beset by poverty and violence. South African writers have responded in various ways to Njabulo Ndebele's call to "rediscover the ordinary." The result has been a kaleidoscope of texts in which evolving cultural forms and modes of identity are rearticulated and explored. An invaluable guide for general readers as well as scholars of African literary history, this comprehensive text celebrates the multiple traditions and exciting future of the South African voice. Although the South African Constitution of 1994 recognizes no fewer than eleven official languages, English has remained the country's literary lingua franca. This book offers a narrative overview of South African literary production in English from 1945 to the postapartheid present. An introduction identifies the most interesting and noteworthy writing from the period. Alphabetical entries provide accurate and objective information on genres and writers. An appendix lists essential authors published before 1945.

Author : Nadine Gordimer,David Goldblatt
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015012082205

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Lifetimes Under Apartheid by Nadine Gordimer,David Goldblatt Pdf

This work is another contribution to the growing pictorial record of apartheid in South Africa, and like some earlier series of black-and-white photographs it is haunted with pathos and irony. Like the pictures from Peter Magubane's Magubane's South Africa (LJ 5/15/78), Goldblatt's images span 35 years and qualify as works of art in their own right.

Author : Nadine Gordimer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408832950

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Telling Times by Nadine Gordimer Pdf

Nadine Gordimer's life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of colonial rule in South Africa, to the long, brutal fight to overthrow South Africa's apartheid regime and to her leadership role over the last 20 years in confronting the dangers of AIDS, globalisation, and ethnic violence. The range of this book is staggering, from Gordimer's first piece in The New Yorker in 1954, in which she autobiographically traces her emergence as a brilliant, young writer in a racist country, to her pioneering role in recognising the greatest African and European writers of her generation, to her truly, courageous stance in supporting Nelson Mandela and other members of the ANC during their years of imprisonment. Given that Gordimer will never write an autobiography, Telling Times is an important document of twentieth-century social and political history, told through the voice of one of its greatest literary figures.