LEADER 03506nam 22005771 450 001 9910972758403321 005 20150916155848.0 010 $a9781474258845 010 $a1474258840 010 $a9781472593016 010 $a1472593014 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474258845 035 $a(CKB)3710000000473381 035 $a(EBL)4000360 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4000360 035 $a(OCoLC)920519597 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09259504 035 $a(UtOrBLW)BP9781474258845BC 035 $a(Perlego)807765 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000473381 100 $a20150930d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aSouth African literature's Russian soul $enarrative forms of global isolation /$fJeanne-Marie Jackson 210 1$aLondon :$cBloomsbury,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 225 1 $aNew horizons in contemporary writing 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781350030305 311 08$a1350030309 311 08$a9781472592996 311 08$a1472592999 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. E?migre? 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. 330 $a"How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of intense social and political upheaval? South African Literature's Russian Soul charts the interplay of narrative innovation and political isolation in two of the world's most renowned non-European literatures. In this book, Jeanne-Marie Jackson demonstrates how Russian writing's "Golden Age" in the troubled nineteenth-century has served as a model for South African writers both during and after apartheid. Exploring these two isolated literary cultures alongside each other, the book challenges the limits of "global" methodologies in contemporary literary studies and outdated models of center-periphery relations to argue for a more locally involved scale of literary enquiry with more truly global horizons."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aNew horizons in contemporary writing. 606 $aSouth African literature$xRussian influences 606 $2Literary studies: from c 1900 - 615 0$aSouth African literature$xRussian influences. 676 $a809.8968 676 $a809.89680904 700 $aJackson$b Jeanne-Marie$01871008 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972758403321 996 $aSouth African literature's Russian soul$94479631 997 $aUNINA