Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers And The Politics Of Place - Couverture souple

Barnard, Rita

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199791163 ISBN 13 : 9780199791163

Editeur : Oxford University Press, Usa, 2012

Synopsis

Apartheid and Beyond offers trenchant, historically sensitive readings of writings by Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form. 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. Throughout the study, Rita Barnard provides historical context by highlighting key events such as colonial occupation, the creation of black townships, migration, forced removals, the emergence of informal settlements, and the gradual integration of white cities. Apartheid and Beyond is both an innovative account of an important body of politically inflected literature and an imaginative reflection on the socio-spatial aspects of the transition from apartheid to democracy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rita Barnard is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Stellenbosch.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, Usa
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199791163
• ISBN 13: 9780199791163
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 234
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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