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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465649303321

Autore

Barnard Rita

Titolo

Apartheid and beyond [[electronic resource] ] : South African writers and the politics of place / / Rita Barnard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-979116-3

1-281-15876-3

1-4294-6873-4

9786611158767

0-19-535455-9

0-19-802726-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/968

Soggetti

South African literature (English) - History and criticism

Politics and literature - South Africa - History - 20th century

Apartheid in literature

Place (Philosophy) in literature

Electronic books.

South Africa In literature

South Africa Politics and government 1994-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dream topographies -- Leaving the house of the white race -- Of trespassers and trash -- A man's scenery -- Beyond the tyranny of place -- The location of postapartheid culture.

Sommario/riassunto

Apartheid and Beyond is a major contribution to the study of South African literary culture. It offers elegant readings of Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form revealed in their work. 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. Though in the first instance



concerned with literary texts, Apartheid and Beyond also m