Crossing borders, dissolving boundaries - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9042036389 ISBN 13 : 9789042036383

Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2013

Synopsis

Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts. The essays assembled here analyse the crossing and negotiation of borders and boundaries in works by Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Winterbach, Deneys Reitz, Janet Suzman, Marlene van Niekerk, A.S. Byatt, Thomas Harris, Frank A. Jenssen, Eben Venter, Antjie Krog, and others under different signs or conceptual points of attraction. These signs include a spiritual turn, eventfulness, self-understanding, ethnic and linguistic mobilization, performative chronotopes, the grotesque, the carceral, the rhetorical, and the interstitial.
Contributors: Ileana Dimitriu, Heilna du Plooy, John Gouws, Anne Heith, Lida Krüger, Susan Meyer, Adéle Nel, Ellen Rees, Johan Schimanski, Tony Ullyatt, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen.

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À propos de l'auteur

Hein Viljoen is professor of Afrikaans and Dutch Literature and Literary Theory at the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus in South Africa. His research interests include Afrikaans poetry, literary theory, and literary and cultural hybridity. With Chris N. van der Merwe he edited Storyscapes (2004) and Beyond the Threshold (2007). He is also editor-in-chief of Literator, a journal for national and comparative literature and linguistics (www.literator.org.za).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9042036389
• ISBN 13: 9789042036383
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 282
• Éditeur: Viljoen Hein
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible