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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Print version record |
Subject |
South African literature (English) -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
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Apartheid in literature.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Apartheid in literature
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Literature
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Place (Philosophy) in literature
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Politics and government
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Politics and literature
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South African literature (English)
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SUBJECT |
South Africa -- In literature
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South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003600
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Subject |
South Africa
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780198027263 |
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0198027265 |
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0195354559 |
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9780195354553 |
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0195112865 |
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9780195112863 |
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1281158763 |
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9781281158765 |
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9781429468732 |
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1429468734 |
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9780199851058 |
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0199851050 |
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0199791163 |
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9780199791163 |
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9786611158767 |
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6611158766 |
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