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Author Barnard, Rita.

Title Apartheid and beyond : South African writers and the politics of place / Rita Barnard
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 221 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-211) and index
Notes English
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Subject South African literature (English) -- History and criticism
Politics and literature -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
Apartheid in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Apartheid in literature
Literature
Place (Philosophy) in literature
Politics and government
Politics and literature
South African literature (English)
SUBJECT South Africa -- In literature
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003600
Subject South Africa
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
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