03330nam 22005051 450 991051136020332120150916155848.01-4742-5884-01-4725-9301-410.5040/9781474258845(CKB)3710000000473381(EBL)4000360(MiAaPQ)EBC4000360(OCoLC)920519597(UtOrBLW)bpp09259504(EXLCZ)99371000000047338120150930d2015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierSouth African literature's Russian soul narrative forms of global isolation /Jeanne-Marie JacksonLondon :Bloomsbury,2015.1 online resource (249 p.)New horizons in contemporary writingDescription based upon print version of record.1-350-03030-9 1-4725-9299-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction. Russia in the South African Imaginary -- 2. The Novel at a Crossroads: Gordimer, Tlali, & the Struggle for Form: I. Testing Trans-Century Parallels ; II. Gordimer's Effacement by Narration ; III. The Path of Progress in Miriam Tlali's Amandla -- 3. Making Animals Work in Tolstoy, Coetzee, and Van Niekerk: I. Dismantling Tolstoy's Strider ; II. Coetzee's Action of Absence ; III. Enduring Isolation in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf -- 4. Retreating Reality: Chekhov's South African Afterlives: I. Structuring Chekhovian Timelessness ; II. De Wet's Self-Disabling Response ; III. The Risky Business of Canonical Affirmation -- 5. Émigré Fiction and the Double-Bind of Home. I. Permeable Repossessions and Nabokov's Speak, Memory ; II. Mark Behr's Not-Quite-Global Novel ; III. Nkosi's Mandela's Ego as Ambivalent Mourning -- 6. Epilogue -- Works Cited -- Index."How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of intense social and political upheaval? South African Literature's Russian Soul charts the interplay of narrative innovation and political isolation in two of the world's most renowned non-European literatures. In this book, Jeanne-Marie Jackson demonstrates how Russian writing's "Golden Age" in the troubled nineteenth-century has served as a model for South African writers both during and after apartheid. Exploring these two isolated literary cultures alongside each other, the book challenges the limits of "global" methodologies in contemporary literary studies and outdated models of center-periphery relations to argue for a more locally involved scale of literary enquiry with more truly global horizons."--Bloomsbury Publishing.New horizons in contemporary writing.South African literatureRussian influencesLiterary studies: from c 1900 -Electronic books.South African literatureRussian influences.809.8968Jackson Jeanne-Marie1068276UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910511360203321South African literature's Russian soul2552849UNINA