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

• Autore: Barnard Rita
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/968
• Soggetto topico: South African literature (English) - History and criticism; Politics and literature - South Africa - History - 20th century; Apartheid in literature; Place (Philosophy) in literature
• Soggetto geografico: South Africa In literature; South Africa Politics and government 1994-
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Apartheid and beyond
• ISBN: 0-19-979116-3; 1-281-15876-3; 1-4294-6873-4; 9786611158767; 0-19-535455-9; 0-19-802726-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465649303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II