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Author | : Andrew van der Vlies |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2017-05-19 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0192512536 |
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Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the 'new' nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that have followed. The first full-length study of affect in South Africa's literature, it understands 'disappointment' both as a description of bad feeling and as naming a missed appointment with all that was promised by the anti-colonial and anti-apartheid Struggle (a dis-appointment). Attending to contemporary writers' treatment of temporality, genre, and form, it considers a range of negative feelings that are also experiences of temporal disjuncture-including stasis, impasse, boredom, disaffection, and nostalgia. Present Imperfect offers close readings of work by a range of writers - some known to international Anglophone readers including J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavic, and Zoë Wicomb, some slightly less well-known including Afrikaans-language novelists Marlene van Niekerk and Ingrid Winterbach, and others from a new generation including Songeziwe Mahlangu and Masande Ntshanga. It addresses key questions in South African studies about the evolving character of the historical period in which the country now finds itself. It is also alert to wider critical and theoretical conversations, looking outward to make a case for the place of South African writing in global conversations, and mobilizing readings of writing marked in various ways as 'South African' in order to complicate the contours of World Literature as category, discipline, and pedagogy. It is thus also a book about the discontents of neoliberalism, the political energies of reading, and the fates of literature in our troubled present.
Author | : Ayesha Kagal |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2019-06-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000308022 |
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The selections in this Anthology overturn Soviet-era taboos with a vengeance. First published in the aftermath of Mikhail Gorbachev's liberalizing reforms, these stories revel in the basic commonalities of human experience even as they reassert a peculiarly Russian belief in the spiritual, mystical, and supernatural. They satirize Soviet literary canons while exploring a full gamut of styles, from neorealism to magico-folkloric fantasy. Included in the volume are works by well-known pioneers of the "new women's prose" as well as by less familiar talents. Bold in thematic conception and stylistic experimentation, their stories are socially engaged–in the classic Russian literary tradition–and yet at the same time intensely personal. While many of these writers share a feminist outlook, their perspectives are vastly disparate and often steeped in a peculiarly post-Soviet irony: In one story, for example, a girl with no money and no prospects of earning any turns to prostitution–and fails because of her lack of entrepreneurial talent. Yet common to all are recurrent and interwoven motifs of self-discovery, sexual power, emotional attachment, social alienation, and vulnerability to uncontrollable forces. The ambiguous ways in which these themes are played out reveal much about what has changed and what remains at the core of a complex culture in transition.
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Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Natural history |
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Author | : Ontario. Legislative Assembly |
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Total Pages | : 828 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Ontario |
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Author | : Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles |
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Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : Greek language |
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Author | : Edwin Bourdieu England |
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Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1881 |
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Author | : E. P. Newton |
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Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : John Miller Dow Meiklejohn |
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Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : John Miller Dow Meiklejohn |
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Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1890 |
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Author | : The Princeton Review |
Publisher | : Princeton Review |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2019-12-10 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0525569014 |
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