Reading the post-apartheid city : Durbanite and Capetonian literary topographies in selected texts beyond 2000 / / Olivier Moreillon

• Autore: Moreillon Olivier
• Pubblicazione: Berlin/Germany, : Logos Verlag Berlin, 2019; Berlin, Gemany : , : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, , [2019]; ©2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 823.9209968
• Soggetto topico: Cities and towns in literature; Urbanization - South Africa
• Soggetto geografico: South Africa Cape Town Literature; South Africa Durban Literature
• Soggetto non controllato: Südafrika; Postapartheid Literatur; Postkoloniale Literatur; Raumtheorie; Identität
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: This study analyses the representation of Durbanite and Capetonian urban spaces in the following selection of post-apartheid works: Mariam Akabor's ''Flat 9'', Rozena Maart's ''Rosa's District Six'', Johan van Wyk's ''Man Bitch'', K. Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'', Bridget McNulty's ''Strange Nervous Laughter'', and Lauren Beukes' ''Moxyland''. The focus lies on the interrelatedness of shifting post-apartheid subjectivities and urban space (and place) in these literary works. The analysis not only grants access to different ‘new voices` of post-apartheid literature, it also sheds light on the perception of South African history, urban geography, and cultural topography – essentially, on real as well as imagined South African urban spaces – as the literary representations of city-spaces become archives of cultural transformation processes; a gateway to the understanding of the developments and changes of, and within, the two cities in question.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reading the post-apartheid city
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910418318903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II