Critical Perspectives on Damon Galgut - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1041109792 ISBN 13 : 9781041109792

Editeur : Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

When Damon Galgut won the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Promise in 2021, he was already an established writer. He had previously been shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2003 and 2010, had been the author of eight novels and four plays, but before the success of The Promise he remained relatively unknown to the general public outside South Africa. This volume is an attempt to engage an international set of specialists in postcolonial studies, South African literature and, in several cases, established writers themselves, in a debate devoted entirely to Galgut's novels. This publication demonstrates that Galgut's work exceeds what readers tend to expect from post-apartheid white writing. Rather than offering the standard narratives of guilt, despair, and frustration, Galgut's novels, in dialogue with each other, and in dialogue with cultural and philosophical trends, propose a more intricate fabric. The writer's diagnosis of the human condition ultimately seems to transcend the constitutive turmoil and the crises, offering a vision of surprisingly and fascinatingly complex reality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Zbigniew Bialas is Professor of English in the Institute of Literary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland) and author of five novels. He was Humboldt Research Fellow in Germany, Fulbright Senior Fellow in the USA and Rockefeller Research Fellow in Italy. His academic books include Post-Tribal Ethos in African Literature (1993), Mapping Wild Gardens: The Symbolic Conquest of South Africa (1997) and The Body Wall: Somatics of Travelling and Discursive Practices (2006). His first novel, Korzeniec (2011) was awarded Silesian Literary Laurels and was turned into a successful theatrical play. Zbigniew Bialas edited/co-edited twelve academic volumes, published over sixty academic essays and translated English, American and Nigerian literature into Polish.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1041109792
• ISBN 13: 9781041109792
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 196
• Éditeur: Białas Zbigniew
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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