02838oam 2200529 450 991041831930332120230621140455.0https://doi.org/10.30819/4794(CKB)4100000011479690(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/64410(ScCtBLL)22de6357-a0ae-46ec-887b-34f704dac78a(EXLCZ)99410000001147969020210223h20192019 fy 0engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierReading loss post-apartheid melancholia in contemporary South African novels /Danyela DemirBerlin/GermanyLogos Verlag Berlin2019Berlin, Germany :Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH,[2019]©20191 online resource (iv, 212 pages) digital file(s)Print version: 3832547940 Includes bibliographical references.This book focuses on six post-apartheid novels, namely Zo¨e Wicomb's ''Playing in the Light'' (2006), Marlene van Niekerk's ''Agaat'' (2004/2007), André Brink's ''Devil's Valley'' (1998), Sarah Penny's ''The Beneficiaries'' (2002), K Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'' (2000), and Kgebetli Moele's ''Room 207'' (2006). It aims at highlighting different manifestations of melancholia that are visible in these texts in particular and in post-apartheid writing more generally. Mainly based on Sigmund Freud's, Anne Cheng's, and Paul Gilroy's concepts of melancholia, most novels are regarded as melancholic counter-narratives to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission's attempt to initiate a nationwide process of mourning with the aim of subsequent closure of the apartheid past. Moreover, concepts of melancholia prove particularly useful in order to analyse issues such as complicity, uncritical whiteness, crises of identity, forms of resistance, and intergenerational memory.Melancholy in literatureSouth AfricaPostcolonialism in literatureSouth AfricaIdentity (Philosophical concept) in literatureSouth AfricaSouth African fictionSouth AfricaIn literatureSüdafrikaPostapartheid LiteraturPostkoloniale LiteraturTruth and Reconciliation CommissionMelancholieMelancholy in literaturePostcolonialism in literatureIdentity (Philosophical concept) in literatureSouth African fiction.823.9209353Demir Danyela953294UkMaJRUBOOK9910418319303321Reading loss2155076UNINA